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E.L. Doctorow in Conversation with Roger Rosenblatt
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E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
03 min 57 secAcclaimed author E.L. Doctorow discusses what he calls the danger of rewriting and how "everything the writer does is problematical." He recalls various mistakes and problems he faced in his own novel-writing process.
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E.L. Doctorow on Outlaw Writers and the Novel Form
02 min 36 secAcclaimed author E.L. Doctorow recalls "outlaw" writers, such as Herman Melville, Virgina Woolfe, and James Joyce, whose work "destroyed everything that was easy" by deconstructing the structure of the traditional novel. He also answers whether he considers himself an outlaw writer.
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E.L. Doctorow Reads from World's Fair: A Novel
05 min 52 secAcclaimed historical novelist E.L. Doctorow reads a humorous excerpt from his award-winning novel World's Fair, the story of a 1930s New York boyhood.
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