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‘When the facts conflict with the legend’
How does a biographer balance storytelling with the truth?
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The Doors of Psychoanalysis
Or, Standing on the Outside Looking In
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On Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
Reflections of an accidental biographer
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Northrop Frye’s Four Levels of Literary Meaning
Or, the nuts and bolts of reading
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The Endurance of Things
On the literary imagination of Randolph Stow
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‘He waxes desperate with imagination’
Or, re-reading “Hamlet” with Margreta de Grazia and Luiz Costa Lima
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A Substacker Reads Luiz Costa Lima in Australia and Bursts into Tears (with apologies to László F. Földényi)
On mimesis, fiction, and the control of the imaginary
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On Edgar Allan Poe and the economics of literary theft
Otherwise known as publishing
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