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Books sorted (Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Franzen)

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The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy   All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy   Jack Kerouac: King of Beats by Barry Miles On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen  Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 

On Writing or the "ever increasing anxious desire to receive positive feedback"

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Tim Parks in The New York Review of Books  asks,  “ Is it really possible to be free as a writer? ” and  concludes that “celebrity, it would appear, breeds conformity.”   [full text]