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|title=Lives in Writing

|author=David Lodge

|publisher=Vintage

|date=January 2015

|summary=Not flawless, but this collection of extended journalism shows the lives off-page that many of our most famous authors leaked into their works.

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David Lodge Lives in Writing. So blares the cover of my edition, and it's not far wrong. When he's not entertaining us with his [[:Category:David Lodge|writing career]] (now in its third, more erudite and to me more serious stage, after the first third of comic light touches, before he found his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writing. When I was younger I also read around writing – literature books, in other words – and Lodge's were among those I turned to. So this book and its contents are a welcome step back down a very familiar road.