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Every book better be fully intimate, it better be all you have. I’m obviously not shy because I’m going to talk your ear off today but I’m private, which is different. But the idea for me to be truly intimate – for me to be naked and raw – the fiction allows me to do what I need to do emotionally. And with this book, certain stories were looking at things – it was a change for me to look at things that were right there.
Nathan Englander on writing fiction. (via nprfreshair)
“We usually support each other through teasing, rather than saying nice things about each other’ … Nathan Englander (left) and Jonathan Safran Foer.”
Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian
Nathan Englander is now on Tumblr!
Worth a follow.
I always talk about writing as if I’m doing bong hits in my mother’s basement.
Englander’s new collection of stories coming February 7, 2012.
