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The Book That's Impossible to Spoil

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Often called "The Perfect Novel" what's the deal with this forgotten classic?

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Huge thanks to:
"The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life" by Charles J. Shields (2018, University of Texas Press).
"John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been" by Leo Robson (March 2019, The New Yorker).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/john-williams-and-the-canon-that-might-have-been

0:00 How to Spoil a Story
8:30 John Williams
22:31 The Narrative
33:10 The Characters
51:45 What is Stoner About?
57:15 Settings
1:00:33 Subtlety
1:07:58 The Paragraph
1:11:09 The Word
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