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Exposed Books is your bookish fix – from viral reads to cult classics. News, reviews, trends, and takes. Old favourites, new finds, always books. 📚

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Norman Mailer headbutted Gore Vidal. Hemingway was less than kind to Fitzgerald. Truman Capote betrayed his closest friends.

Byron and Keats weren't exactly exchanging compliments.

8 literary feuds, centuries of bruised egos.

https://t.co/33AHQzJW8F

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Capote threw parties that made headlines. Norman Mailer picked fights. Gore Vidal made arguments into entertainment. Joan Didion became a fashion icon.

When did writers become celebrities, & when did the personality become as important as the prose?

https://t.co/VYgDb2sYEL

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We call things “Orwellian” all the time.

But have we become so obsessed with what George Orwell predicted that we've forgotten how extraordinarily well he wrote?

Why does his prose still sound so modern, eighty years later?

https://t.co/ZUwcfBWG3I

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We call things “Orwellian” all the time.

But have we become so obsessed with what George Orwell predicted that we've forgotten how extraordinarily well he wrote?

Why does his prose still sound so modern, eighty years later?

https://t.co/ZUwcfBWG3I

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A star rating tells you whether somebody liked a book.
Criticism asks why.
On Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers and the lost pleasure of reading somebody who could turn an argument about a book into literature itself.
https://t.co/Ld18obM8Lt

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A star rating tells you whether somebody liked a book.
Criticism asks why.
On Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers and the lost pleasure of reading somebody who could turn an argument about a book into literature itself.
https://t.co/Ld18obM8Lt

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Joan Didion takes the chaos of grief and gives it extraordinarily precise sentences.

The experience is messy. The book isn’t.

What happens between those two things?

The writer.

On The Year of Magical Thinking and turning life into literature.https://t.co/vYZ4B3vZkd

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For eighteen years, Jean-Claude Romand’s family thought he was a doctor.

There was no job. No career. No secret second life.

Emmanuel Carrère’s problem was how to write about the emptiness behind the lie.

https://t.co/mJ4AhZL4Eb

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For eighteen years, Jean-Claude Romand’s family thought he was a doctor.

There was no job. No career. No secret second life.

Emmanuel Carrère’s problem was how to write about the emptiness behind the lie.

https://t.co/mJ4AhZL4Eb

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Joe McGinniss gained a murderer’s trust, then wrote a book portraying him as guilty.

Janet Malcolm thought the real story was what happened between the writer and his subject.
https://t.co/bIwNrvOwdG

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Joe McGinniss gained a murderer’s trust, then wrote a book portraying him as guilty.

Janet Malcolm thought the real story was what happened between the writer and his subject.
https://t.co/bIwNrvOwdG

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas isn't really about drugs.

It's about waking up after the American dream has gone bad.

Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalism and whether something can be inaccurate but still true.
https://t.co/NAA1CiRZ7p

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas isn't really about drugs.

It's about waking up after the American dream has gone bad.

Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalism and whether something can be inaccurate but still true.
https://t.co/NAA1CiRZ7p

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Donna Tartt hasn't published a novel since 2013.

Meanwhile, The Secret History became huge again, dark academia exploded, BookTok happened and a new generation discovered her.

Somehow, Donna Tartt became more culturally relevant by saying almost nothing. https://t.co/MmSvilRmc9

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Donna Tartt hasn't published a novel since 2013.

Meanwhile, The Secret History became huge again, dark academia exploded, BookTok happened and a new generation discovered her.

Somehow, Donna Tartt became more culturally relevant by saying almost nothing. https://t.co/MmSvilRmc9

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Joan Didion sat quietly and watched. Norman Mailer walked straight into the story. Two literary opposites, one uncomfortable question: can a journalist ever really be objective? https://t.co/hdJM2V1gtI

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Gary Gilmore became famous. His victims became footnotes.

Norman Mailer turned the story into a masterpiece.

The Executioner’s Song asks an uncomfortable question: can a writer ever simply tell the truth?https://t.co/LwUIHrvvYB

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Gary Gilmore became famous. His victims became footnotes.

Norman Mailer turned the story into a masterpiece.

The Executioner’s Song asks an uncomfortable question: can a writer ever simply tell the truth?https://t.co/LwUIHrvvYB

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Four people were murdered. Truman Capote turned their deaths into literature.

In Cold Blood is brilliant, unsettling and not always trustworthy.

It may also be the one true crime book everyone should read.

https://t.co/duuIxPV3lB

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Four people were murdered. Truman Capote turned their deaths into literature.

In Cold Blood is brilliant, unsettling and not always trustworthy.

It may also be the one true crime book everyone should read.

https://t.co/duuIxPV3lB