Dating Your Mom (2012)
“I dislike talking about writing, because I believe that the job of a writer is to write rather than talk, and that real writing is something so deep within one that any discussion profanes it. In addition, I have a profound distrust of lists—the ten-best this, the twenty-worst that. Such lists strike me as a characteristically American oversimplification of life’s diversity. Like most writers of any experience, I fear making lists simply because I fear leaving something out. Young writers, howe...ver, can be very insistent (I have found), and, as no less an authority than Flaubert once said, “what a scholar one might be if one knew well merely some half a dozen books.” So I have decided to tackle this difficult task despite my misgivings. The following six works are ones that I believe every writer—in fact, every educated person—should know as well as he knows his own name and telephone number: Remembrance of Things Past. Marcel Proust’s lyric, luminous evocation of lost time is arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century.MoreLess
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