Rosmarie Waldrop : The Nick of Time
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Why There's Wide Space?
In trans ing jabesse, i always had to fight the publisher to give the book as much wide space as the french book hasand i didn't always get as much, but i got some. But despite of the space between gives an enormous weight to the words, more weight than they would have if they were closer together. Was that silence really again, it slows us down, it makes a pause, and then enfolds the words with more importance than they would've otherwise. In fact, when when claude's first book was published, his first review was titled, so much white, so muchwhiteand and one thing.
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