Paul Lynch
@paullynchwriter
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Irish novelist: Five novels including PROPHET SONG, winner of the Booker Prize 2023. Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University. Member of @Aosdána
Joined April 2011
Some news: I am excited to announce that I will be joining Maynooth University as Distinguished Writing Fellow where I will be teaching on the MA in Creative Writing. I’m thrilled to be a part of this writing program alongside a team of brilliant colleagues….
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow ✍️. Maynooth University is delighted to announce that 2023 Booker Prize Winner @paullynchwriter has been appointed Maynooth University Distinguished Writing Fellow.
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This is Juliet Mabey (@Jule9), my editor and publisher. Since 2009, when she started publishing fiction at @OneworldNews, she has published three Booker Prize-winning novels. LEGEND.
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That moment when you’ve done 60 interview since 26 November and now they want you to sign 2,000 books in one sitting. Thank you @WaterstonesPicc .(For the record, it took 1hr, 25min) with a team of four.
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This is a wondrous moment for me and I'm so pleased to be sharing it with these superb writers including my friend Paul Murray. Seamus Heaney wrote in North: "Expect aurora borealis in the long foray. " Last night, there was light in the sky. #BookerPrize2023
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I have been receiving a lot of requests for signed copies of #ProphetSong. Do not fear. I shall be at the mighty @chaptersbooks in Dublin this Friday at 5pm armed with a pen. Might see you there.
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Wowsers. The Booker Dozen! What an honour. Congrats to my fellow Irish nominees. .
‘All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time.’ . We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2023 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. 🎉. Find out more:
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Thrilled to learn that Prophet Song has been shortlisted for a major European award, Italy’s Strega European Prize. I doff my cap to my formidable translator Riccardo Duranti, with thanks to my publisher @66thand2nd
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Well, helloooo. Paul Murray and I meet HM The Queen at Clarence House yesterday morning while the Third Paul (Harding) lurks in the background @TheBookerPrizes @OneworldNews
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Jaysus! Full-page, lead fiction review for PROPHET SONG in today's @guardian. #BookerPrize
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This is the knee-trembling view from the stage yesterday at the sold-out, 1,000-seater @TheBookerPrizes shortlist event at Cheltenham Literary Festival
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I am now entering into a publishing window of shameless self-promotion. Apparently the book is already in some Irish shops. .
'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years. The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann. Pre-order Prophet Song by @paullynchwriter now
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I wonder if I have coined a new term in my essay for @TheBookerPrizes — 'On Cosmic Realism: Melville, Dostoyevsky, Conrad and Faulkner form an echoing conversation across time’ .
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I will be making my BBC Radio 4 debut this evening on @BBCFrontRow where I'll be talking about. well, you probably know what I'm going to be talking about @TheBookerPrizes.
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I have just learned that the towering ziggurat of Prophet Song hardbacks I signed for @KennysBookshop are already gone. Do not panic. I will sign more. There Will Be Hardback.
Delighted to welcome Booker Prize Longlisted author Paul Lynch back to Kennys this week! Paul kindly signed copies of the soon-to-be-published Prophet Song - order your signed copy now, while stocks last: .#PaulLynch #IrishWriting #BookerPrize2023
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I'll be signing stacks of books and putting on my best Grinch face this Friday at 6pm at @Hodges_Figgis for their Christmas launch, alongside my dear frenemy Paul Murray and other writers. (Yes, yes, Christmas has started early).
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This! 👇👇👇.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce a very special event coming up on Sunday 10th September. We will have not one, but ALL FOUR of the Irish authors longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize here TOGETHER for a reading and book signing ⭐️
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I am thrilled to receive so many incredible blurbs for my new novel Prophet Song, published 7 September by @OneworldNews. My great thanks to these writers for reading it. Here is what they have said:
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I have finally been outed as a secret '80s metal guitar noodler. What a pleasure to invite @edelcoffey into my home on behalf of @IrishTimes.
I spoke to @TheBookerPrizes longlisted author @paullynchwriter for @IrishTimes. ‘The line between the things we take for granted and the moment we lose them, I’ve always been interested in that in my fiction.’.
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Ouais! THE BLACK SNOW has won the French booksellers’ award, the Prix Libr’à Nous, for best foreign novel
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THIS! Final artwork for PROPHET SONG has arrived. Coming September 2023. Many thanks to @OneworldNews and most especially to genius cover designer (and fellow Dub dweller) Jack Smyth! @CormacKinsella @RepforceIreland @Trewinagency
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This is happening this evening in @chaptersbooks. All welcome 👇.
It is today!! Please come and join us for a chat about all things books and anything else that catches our fancy!! . Paul Lynch - After Hours
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Greatly looking forward to my event 6.30pm tomorrow at @RSWestport where I'll be discussing Prophet Song among other things. A superb line-up over the weekend 👇👇👇👇.
All set for @RSWestport this weekend. @JoannaDonnellyL @cooper_m @paullynchwriter @barbarascully @katrionaos @colmoregan
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This. With the great Mike McCormack this evening for @DublinBookFest and live on @RTEArena .👇👇👇👇👇👇.
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I read the second-half of this book with broken, badly taped glasses so eager was I to finish it. APHASIA is dizzying — a comic howl of pain and a Herzog for our shattered times by way of Bernhard, Krasznahorkai etc @IneluctableQuak @OneworldNews
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I have been awakened from my five-year Twitter slumber. Thank you @david_mitchell !.
I finished this exquisite, meticulous, powerful novel by @paullynchwriter this afternoon. A fisherman and a youth adrift on the Pacific in a fishing boat. Nothing & everything happens, often at the same time. And what a stylist.
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Two years, one draft and 500 pages later, these are the happiest and saddest two words any novelist can write: http://t.co/OWPM13U0Qr.
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Few debut novelists have the nerve or the talent to pen a novel like this: THE DUST NEVER SETTLES reads like the lovechild of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Rebecca du Maurier and is a work of extraordinary imagination. @OneworldNews
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Just arrived: the hardback of my new book. Two years of slavery and pain magicked into something wonderful. #Shelfie? http://t.co/afOwhflErm.
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Just arrived — the @littlebrown North American hardback of THE BLACK SNOW. Super job @bradstreet26
http://t.co/qUIZ0fWFdb.
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When starting a new novel the first thing to do is to find the book's distinct music. Once you hear its tune, the rest will follow. .
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I may have written the shortest damn thing I've ever written (260 words!) for the latest issue of The Cormorant. Thanks to @mcmonaglewriter for wielding the big stick. .
So proud of #TheCormorant Issue 8 guest edited by Alan McMonagle (@mcmonaglewriter)with artwork by Aoife Casby (@aoifecasby13 ). Thank you to all the contributors who travelled and read their work. Great night.
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Just saw this great WSJ infographic on How to Read Books More Often, whilst online, avoiding book I should be reading http://t.co/jCdLy1wgja.
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I love how a book bought on a whim & unread 10 years ago is the perfect book for me just now. Books are surprise gifts for your future self.
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Back in my idle twenties, Claire Kilroy left us all for dead. But then she went quiet for a decade. The writing career, like life, is a blind and crooked road beset by thorny bushes. You must fight your way step by step. This is what Claire Kilroy’s machete looks like:
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Noun: SHIZZLE .|shi-zul|.Shit light rain, usually during a prolonged, shit Irish summer. #Ireland.
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Gavin Corbett, Donal Ryan, Ciaran Collins and myself, 4.30am, at the Irish Book Awards. http://t.co/A0wClVJOJz.
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This is the artwork for next spring's USA release of my second novel THE BLACK SNOW. What a fine job @littlebrown
http://t.co/OIH59jIrPV.
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Look at these bad boys! The US paperback of Red Sky in Morning is just in the door. Classy job @littlebrown
http://t.co/ta5mO8Z65u.
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@littlebrown Nightmare. Inferno. Farm. Burning cattle! Wake up!! Sweating. 5am. Eureka!!! Grab phone. Begin typing. Two years later: Book!.
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An appreciation of the witheringly brilliant and out-of-print New Yorker critic Pauline Kael http://t.co/JISTDGh via @PaulineKael.
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An essay I’ve written for the @nytimes: .“ We are no longer alienated from the world, but alienated from ourselves.”.
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'Literary works are not in competition with one another. The race is run against time, not the winds of public approval' — William Gass.
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Everything sounds better in French: Beyond the Sea, published today in France by @AlbinMichel, becomes «Au-delà de la mer». (You must whisper it in a French accent). Here's to the 521 books, published all at once, that make up this year's #RentréeLittéraire in France.
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Here's me (v deep-voice) being filmed by RTE News's @SineadCrowley, reading Machado @BooksUpstairs for Poetry Day http://t.co/zPUsGh0WfV.
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Here is the stunning artwork for my second novel THE BLACK SNOW, due next summer. http://t.co/CPjdOA6EIV.
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@AmericanGwyn Here is my (near-fine) UK first edition hardcover. A gift to myself for my 40th. Worth every penny.
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Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1 (Threshold) on Prophet Song: "The work of a master novelist. Prophet Song is a stunning, midnight vision whose themes are at once ancient and all too timely: fear, complicity, resistance, and what becomes of us when hell rises to our homeland." @OneworldNews
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So what have your pandemic dreams been like? . I explored the nightmare world of covid dreams for @afdublin recently as part of Night of Ideas 2021. (Text in English after the French. ).
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Fleur Jaeggy, where’ve you been all my life?. Sentences that are as precise and penetrating as shards of glass. From Sweet Days of Discipline (@andothertweets & @NewDirections), translated by Tim Parks
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Ron Rash calls it "mesmerizing", Philipp Meyer "a brilliant, hypnotic book". Out today in paperback. , @QuercusBooks
http://t.co/B369CAY9pH.
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NPR's book critic Alan Cheuse says The Black Snow's prose is so gorgeous, it makes him want to give up writing. http://t.co/PFtT5hIpYc.
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Road trip to @AllinghamArts in Donegal with Donal Ryan. Paying respects to WB at Drumcliffe. Drunkards pass by. http://t.co/m6xlJovM9L.
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Back in Dublin & really looking forward to talking about THE BLACK SNOW at @dalkeybookfest next Saturday with the ever great @sineadgleeson.
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Out next month: the UK&Irl @QuercusBooks paperback of THE BLACK SNOW. Here’s Philipp Meyer trapped inside the artwork http://t.co/5Oevhos3gZ.
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Book launch reminder: Donal Ryan will be launching my new novel THE BLACK SNOW at @Hodges_Figgis 6pm tomorrow. Come! http://t.co/Mj6kKAbbML.
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It does seem to be that time of year again when one should read Thomas Kinsella's great poem Another September:
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JK Rowling's new book is called THE BLACK SNOW, written under pseudonym "Paul Lynch". @Siggo for more breaking news on this.
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How I wrote that difficult second novel — a piece I wrote for @Foyles on THE BLACK SNOW http://t.co/66WTgUNeeu.
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Just saw The Strypes — on Letterman of all places. They have it. They own it. And they know it.
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More than strange to see myself on the RTE news reading a Machado poem. How the fuck did that happen? #PoetryDayIrl
http://t.co/uK75HHPSOc.
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Ron Rash (Serena) on Prophet Song:."Surely one of the most important novels of this decade." @OneworldNews
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The Toronto Star: "Lynch's The Black Snow is a fierce and stunning novel written in chiaroscuro" http://t.co/NeFRogJJIO.
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Just found out I am down to the last six for France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. I had not been told until now!.
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"No one deserves to be killed for writing badly, especially not under the age of twenty" - Bolaño.
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Christine Dwyer Hickey (The Narrow Land) on Prophet Song: "Deft, subtle and written in strikingly beautiful prose, with this stunning novel Paul Lynch has joined the ranks of Atwood, Orwell and Burgess." @OneworldNews
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Jonathan Franzen should ask Nell Zink to blurb his new novel.
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Sara Baume (Spill Simmer Falter Wither) on Prophet Song: .‘Gripping and chilling, and terribly prescient - a novel with a darkly important message about this particular moment in time.' @OneworldNews
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Here's @GavinTCorbett signing copies of his Pynchonesque novel Green Glowing Skull last night @Hodges_Figgis
http://t.co/PqIRpO9iv1.
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I've just watched A Separation again. It just might be a perfect screenplay.
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Word by word. Line by line. Page by page. Headache by headache.
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Lots of hard-earned literary wisdom in Matt Haig's 30 things every writer should know: http://t.co/yRxtBpfzXv.
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A great pleasure to learn that my novel BEYOND THE SEA has won France's Prix Gens de Mer. Mes remerciements à tous les participants et @AlbinMichel !.
Paul Lynch, nouveau lauréat du Prix "Gens de Mer" ! ⚓. L’auteur irlandais Paul Lynch reçoit le prix pour son livre "Au-delà de la mer" (@AlbinMichel) ;.Ian Manook remporte celui de la Compagnie des Pêches avec "À Islande" (@EditionsPaulsen). 👉 #EV2022
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Characters are ciphers & narratives are made richer by omission: smart piece on what we see when we read http://t.co/zI9KbehKrC
@parisreview.
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I am gutted to hear of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. An actor of real greatness. Peter Bradshaw's appreciation http://t.co/KWFyBQ4Oi3.
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Alan McMonagle @mcmonaglewriter (Ithaca) on Prophet Song: "Part cautionary-tale; part dystopian-nightmare; part fever dream. Prophet Song takes you to the edge of the chasm and insists that you look down. A masterclass in terror and dread.’ @OneworldNews
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I love the smell of paperbacks in the morning. Great job @QuercusBooks
http://t.co/74NMYAOXxG.
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Samantha Harvey (The Western Wind) on Prophet Song: "A monumental novel, prose so flawless and flowing that reading it is akin to being taken up in a wave. You emerge dazed. You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years"
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Lisa Harding @LisaSHarding (Bright Burning Things) on Prophet Song: "A mesmerising, shattering novel, Prophet Song lingers long after finishing it. A paean to maternal love amidst gathering forces of darkness, Paul Lynch has done something extraordinary. It is a work of wonder."
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Today's @IrishTimes has an ad for Ryanair as part of its embedded video clip of the Taiwan jet crash and the music is "Get Down on It"!.
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Ireland Literature Exchange is bringing out a second Irish Writers postcards series, including one of me. Here it is! http://t.co/0Fg4I86xpS.
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@Julia_Blues And yet we are compelled to do it. Writing has to hurt if it is to be any good. #LitChat.
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I've just learned that RED SKY IN MORNING has been nominated for France's Le prix du premier roman. Croissant for breakfast, so. .
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Catholic Ireland's dead and gone. What a great day to be Irish. (I'll bet you wish you were in Dublin) #YesEquality.
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Just signed a mountain of THE BLACK SNOW hardbacks at @gutterbookshop. Each one uniquely marked with my odd hieroglyph.
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Wonderful new flipbook extract of THE BLACK SNOW, my new book out this March. Have a look here: http://t.co/xayEGlNK4W.
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Dublin city book folk, put this in your diary: THE BLACK SNOW launch. Tuesday 11 March. 6pm. Hodges Figgis.
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Just found this: every scene of The Black Snow written out on card. Months were spent with them all over the floor http://t.co/TvLnXzmudL.
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@Siggo @RossOCK @GavinTCorbett Remnds me of Peter Cook –.I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel". I said, "Neither am I".
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Didn't Yeats leave a great body of work? Who needs a missing skeleton!.
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My French editor just sent this along: a round-up (in English) of what the French press said about RED SKY IN MORNING http://t.co/zNfNcucrOM.
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"The great difference between poets and madmen is the destiny of the madness that possesses them". I am loving Saramago's ". Ricardo Reis".
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I love the idea of a Charlie Kaufman film about Philip Roth annually NOT winning the Nobel. http://t.co/pKQ58crjEk.
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