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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.…

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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

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“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”

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People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

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“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the…

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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

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While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because…

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