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20 Lines a Day

by Harry Mathews · 1988

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For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal s dictum for writers of twenty lines a day, genius or not. What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing."

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short · 134 pages

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