{"id":2411,"date":"2019-12-06T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T03:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2020-03-31T20:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:53:25","slug":"human-relations-and-other-difficulties-mary-key-wilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2019\/12\/06\/human-relations-and-other-difficulties-mary-key-wilmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Relations and Other Difficulties — Mary-Key Wilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mary-Kay Wilmers writes like she\u2019s the editor of an august literary magazine. And in fact she is the founder and editor of my favourite magazine, the London Review of Books<\/a>. She also writes for it sometimes, and this book is a collection of her writing from the magazine. In these pieces, her tone is dispassionate, even when she writes about herself; the end product is \u201cclear as vodka\u201d, as John Lanchester writes in the introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the pieces here are reviews of biographies, though my favourite is a discussion of novel reviews. She doesn\u2019t write novel reviews, she has instead written a review of novel reviews. As LRB editor, she has a lot of insight into novel reviewing, so this is very interesting. It\u2019s also quite a fun read — it\u2019s like reading a whole issue of the London Review of Books in 5 minutes. (Usually it takes me a couple of weeks to read an issue.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a good book to dip into, one piece at a time. You shouldn\u2019t drink a whole bottle of vodka in one sitting.
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