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The Virtues of Difficult Fiction

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By Joanna Scott, James Wood, Joseph Tabbi, Naomi S. Baron
| The Nation Verified
If novels aren’t worthy challenges, we have no reason to linger in their pages. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark (Doug Chayka) Join the Nation Festival Join the Nation Festival for four days of essential conversation and commentary in the wake of the 2020 election. Join the Nation Festival Join the Nation Festival for four days of essential conversation and commentary in the wake of the 2020 election.
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The Virtues of Difficult Fiction

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By Joanna Scott, James Wood, Joseph Tabbi, David Mikics
| The Nation Verified
Who Needs Fiction? That was the question I saw on signs around Stockholm during a recent visit. The signs were advertising a local museum, but being a novelist, I took the question as a direct challenge. From deep inside the thickets of our Digital Age, with its glorification of quantitative information, I’ve been wondering about the genre that defines itself as an alternative to fact.
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The Best William Gaddis Novels

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By Joseph Tabbi
| publishersweekly.com
Joseph Tabbi's outstanding new biography of postmodern master William Gaddis, Nobody Grew But the Business, is a fascinating look at a well-known reclusive writer. It also reveals that much of Gaddis's writing was autobiographical, and that Gaddis mined his 20 years in corporate America, as well as his own family history, for characters, themes, and stories. Tabbi ranks Gaddis's novels.
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A Conversation with David Markson By Joseph Tabbi

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By Joseph Tabbi, Stephen Moore
| dalkeyarchive.com
From “The Review of Contemporary Fiction,” Summer 1990, Vol. 10.2 JOSEPH TABBI: People find it interesting that you were friendly with several major writers when you were quite young, long before you had written anything yourself. DAVID MARKSON: Oh, well, that’s mainly Lowry, of course. He’s the one with the exotic aura, all that legendary drinking, living off in the wilderness . . . JT: You visited him up there in British Columbia. And he stayed with you for a few weeks in New York?
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