Ian McEwan, friend of TRP

[Mark Kohut]

All good sources, guys, but do any of us know McEwan's expressed influences in the way
we know of his friendship with TRP who makes spying central as a lifelong thematic motif?
 
And it is the 'all novels' generality that intrigues.....maybe TRP would say 'all novels are
detective novels" at base, if he would ever talk so loosely. 
 
McEwan's new (upcoming) novel is an MI5 'thriller', it seems...

From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> 
Cc: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Ian McEwan, friend of TRP


Or E. A. Poe.... 



On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

Or Guy de Maupassant.....
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>or Feodor Dostoevsky.....
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>love,
>cfa 
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>On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>On 6/3/2012 8:56 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>has said at the Hay book Festival: "All novels are spy novels;
>>>all novelists are spies."
>>>Discuss whether he learned this from TRP.
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>>If so, TRP learned it from JleC.
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>>P
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