The Long View

A Discursive Accounting in Eight Parts

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Yesterday I listened to Meghan Daum interview the Canadian writer Stephen Marche about his new book On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer (published in February as part of Biblioasis’s Field Notes series). At one point, Marche quoted two writers whose work has endured, and I found myself scram…