Lunch with Montgomery Fellow André Aciman
While taking questions from the intimate gathering of graduate students, Aciman spoke of “cheating” as a writer by using empty bits of time. “When do I write? All the time. In between tasks I need to do, or when I’m travelling. Whenever I get the time, really. In other words, I cheat,” Aciman said with a laugh. During an earlier public reading in the Wren Room at the Dartmouth Baker Library, the writer has also light-heartedly joked that he essentially stole from people. “As a writer you cull from everywhere and everyone.
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