Books: Edmund White

"The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño. The living heart of this book is the knowledge of what it would be like to be young and poor, and in love with art and sex.

A classic book that, upon rereading, disappointed: John Fowles's "The Magus" was thin at a second look.

A much-recommended book that you've resisted reading: I've never read anything by Margaret Atwood—maybe because I found her double reputation as a feminist and a Canadian daunting.

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