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Review

Rating: 8

This is a dense and very literate look into what it means to be a writer. Some of it is very enlightening, but the inspiration, I think, comes late in the book, in the last chapter. This is the title chapter and deals with the idea that one of the central motivating forces behind writing and writers across time is the idea of somehow conveying permanence in a world where death is. Either by relaying information from beyond the grave, or by the very act of writing, stamping ourselves in a more permanent form that will outlast death.

Very interesting stuff. Takes a focused reader. Don’t try while doing other things, some books you can get away with reading during commercials. Not this one.