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Separating fan and fiction

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February 22, 2025

Terence Blacker reflects on Frederick Exley’s wild and brave A Fan’s Notes’ that changed the way he understood writing

- Terence Blacker

Separating fan and fiction

Most of the books of my lifetime have an explicable chronology to them. I read Joseph Heller's Something Happened when I was first working in an office. Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier fascinated me when I was first trying to write a novel. Lorrie Moore's collection Birds of America reached me when I was in a post-divorce haze.

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