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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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"I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to get some stuff I can read."

Fans of P.G. Wodehouse will enjoy this 1975 interview with the great man, conducted a month before he passed away.

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Gef the Talking Mongoose

HELL YES. This is just what I needed. Thanks, Awl!

Also :
"... Wodehouse, who lived four months past his ninety-third birthday, had discovered his own secret of long life: he simply ignored what was worrisome, bothersome, or confusing in the world around him."

Now that's living.

richardrushfield

Why do you have to say fans of PG Wodehouse? Cant it be assumed that anyone reading this site is a fan of PG Wodehouse? Are you suggesting you have some readers who aren't? If so, could you please cut off their awl reading permissions so that the rest of us will not risk contact with them?

brilliantmistake

P.G. Wodehouse was a Mets fan? *brain melts*

dntsqzthchrmn
dntsqzthchrmn (#2,893)

@brilliantmistake As if anyone needed further reasons to admire him...

ComradePsmith
ComradePsmith (#4,477)

Delightful!

oudemia
oudemia (#177)

@ComradePsmith Don't you have vorticist poetesses to chase?

scrooge
scrooge (#2,697)

There's a terrific book called "Author! Author!" which, I think, was correspondence between PGW and somebody or other about writing. A lot of good tips in there for the would-be novelist.

Kakapo
Kakapo (#2,312)

There's also a pretty delightful semi-autobiography called IN HIS OWN WORDS that weaves pieces of his writing into the story of his life. Much fun.

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