Weird Writers: from Schiller's Rotten Apples to O'connor's Sweet Tooth
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Ordinary readers may be satisfied with understanding great writers through their works, but for avid literary lovers, this is far from enough. We also have to go into their study rooms to understand how these works were written: was it pencil, pen, or typewriter? Should you write while sitting, lying down, or standing? How many words do you write every day? Celia Blue Johnson is one such lover who seeks "immediate intimacy" with great writers. Under the investigation and research of this "literary detective", we can know the details of the birth of those masterpieces, and understand the writing quirks and obsessions of great writers: from Schiller's rotten apples to O'Connor's sweet teeth, from Hugo's house arrest to Dickens' zipper tearing through the crowd, from Proust's cork shield to Nabokov's bathtub, from Joyce's white coat to Woolf's purple ink...
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