Edmund White
Edmund White is a novelist and literary critic. He has written some twenty-five books – novels, memoirs, travel books, biographies and essays. He has written on Sartre, Genet, homosexual desire and sex as well as on Proust and Paris. He teaches writing at Princeton and is a contributing editor at Granta.
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American Vogue
Edmund White
‘Mumbling is proof of artistic verisimilitude.’
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Books I Read This Year
Various Contributors
From Robert Macfarlane’s journey through Britain’s old and forgotten footpaths, to Teju Cole’s illuminations of...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Edmund White
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In the novel, Jack Holmes & His Friend, Edmund White explores thirty years in the...
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
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John Updike, like many novelists, liked to hide behind his characters. He even has a...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
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The End?: Writers respond to John Barth
Various Contributors
Photo by Kate Gibb \ Big Active. Since the appearance of his first book The...
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
My First European
Edmund White
‘I belong to the last generation of Americans obsessed with Europe and intimidated by it.’
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The Merry Widow
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’She met my father in Texas and then they moved north, where I was born in Cincinnati.‘
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Give it up for Billy
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‘Were there moral cataracts that one could remove?’
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Shrinks
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‘Did the Rorschach lay bare my essence or my becoming? Was I becoming better or worse?’
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Telling Him
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‘Austin invited his friend Joséphine, a children's book illustrator, to lunch‘.
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Skinned Alive
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‘Once in a very great while he referred to me playfully as his 'husband', despite his revulsion against camp.’
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Prague: A Disappearing Poem
Milan Kundera
'Prague, this dramatic and suffering centre of Western destiny, is gradually fading away into the mists of Eastern Europe, to which it has never really belonged.' Milan Kundera on the loss of Prague's thousand-year-culture in Prague: A Disappearing Poem.
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A Kidnapped West or Culture Bows Out
Milan Kundera
'But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime; put another way, it sees in Central Europe only Eastern Europe.'