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theamericanscholar:

Indianapolis when I was 9 years old, and you can’t go back there. But I had a mother and a father, a big sister, a big brother, a dog, a cat — and yeah, that’s where I’d like to go.

-Kurt Vonnegut, aged 82

Former books beat writer for the Washington Post, Bob Thompson, recounts interviews with with a catalogue of authors, from Morrison to Didion to Roth, in his essay, Writing About Writers.

Our former colleague, writing better than we ever could about writers who themselves are better than we will ever be.