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Beautiful and haunting morality/humanity story. The Guardian's review suggested that his writing approaches that of Conrad. At times it's like Conrad rewrote Ursula Le Guin.
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Writers' habits and methods
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"I would call my apartment in New York, the answering machine would pick up, I'd read the page of text I'd just written, then I'd hang up. A minute later, I'd call my apartment again and listen to the "message.""
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"his writing process, painfully slow, would sometimes yield only a couple of lines or paragraphs a day; he was so concerned about the flow of his sentences that he would scan typed pages, pinned to a corkboard from across the room, with binoculars"
Under The Skin is the most wonderously, sickening read. My friend Richard hooked me up with the many, wandering styles of Faber this past month and I haven't looked back. Interesting that both you and he seem to be filing up on him within the same time-frame; or perhaps I am only noticing the mentions now that I am aware of who he is? No matter.
Posted by: Steve | April 04, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Faber is a recent but very happy discovery here. Under The Skin and the collection Some Rain Must Fall (particularly the title story) are fantastic, the new collection Fahrenheit Twins is under way and promising, but I haven't read the others yet.
2006's reading: http://del.icio.us/rodcorp/booksreadin2006
Posted by: rodcorp | April 04, 2006 at 01:41 PM