When an intelligent writer enters into dialogue or conversation with readers like this, we gain greater understanding of their work we can also tune in to Eco’s evident enjoyment of his art and his craft. There were also some fascinating insights into Baudolino, which I love almost as much I was less interested in Foucault’s Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before, though I’ve read these too. I like it when an author colludes with his readers like this. What he has to say about the genesis of The Name of the Rose, which has been one of my top three novels ever since I first read it, was very interesting: he added both to my understanding of, and pleasure in the book by explaining the origins of certain moments and episodes. Litgaz on Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edg…Įco knows how to get you thinking: his first question asks what we actually mean by creative writing, and we’re off… Rachel on Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edg…

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