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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright and More Information
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note
I: THE WORLD AROUND THE BOOK
Do We Need Stories?
Why Finish Books?
E-books Are for Grown-ups
Does Copyright Matter?
The Dull New Global Novel
Reading It Wrong
Why Readers Disagree
Where I’m Reading From
II: THE BOOK IN THE WORLD
What’s Wrong with the Nobel?
A Game Without Rules
Most Favored Nations
Writing Adrift in the World
Art That Stays Home
Writing Without Style
Literature and Bureaucracy
In the Chloroformed Sanctuary
Writers into Saints
III: THE WRITER’S WORLD
The Writer’s Job
Writing to Win
Does Money Make Us Write Better?
Fear and Courage
To Tell and Not to Tell
Stupid Questions
The Chattering Mind
Trapped Inside the Novel
Changing Our Stories
Writing to Death
IV: WRITING ACROSS WORLDS
“Are You the Tim Parks Who...?”
Ugly Americans Abroad
Your English Is Showing
Learning to Speak American
In Praise of the Language Police
Translating in the Dark
Listening for the Jabberwock
In the Wilds of Leopardi
Echoes from the Gloom
My Novel, Their Culture
Biographical Note
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