RIP John Le Carre, real writer.

[Mark Kohut]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:32 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slothrop was at least partly inspired by Smiley, right? Dumpy, decent guy,
> trying to figure it all out.
>
> https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1338245721699577858?s=2
> <https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1338245721699577858?s=20>0
>
> Ben left a creative writing degree pursuit to work in Obama's WH. Obama
> loved him for his writing and young differing intelligence.
> <https://twitter.com/brhodes>
> Ben Rhodes
> @brhodes
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> ·
> 2h <https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1338248241981231104>
> When I emerged mentally, physically and emotionally spent from 8 years on
> natsec in the White House, the first thing I did is read 3 of his books in
> a row. It was one of the most intense, illuminating and strangely
> reassuring reading experiences of my life.
> <https://twitter.com/StephenKing>
> Stephen King
> @StephenKing
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> 2h <https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1338246452552871936>
> John le Carre has passed at the age of 89. This terrible year has claimed
> a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit.
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:14 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This stuff below in the Guardian on the press and readers' belief tha*t
>> Spy From Cold* was REALISTIC and Le Carre's (and MI's) knowledge it was
>> 'fiction', inevitably a romance in the Hawthorne & literary sense is
>> so revealing. So interesting in pinning art down.
>>
>> My favorite early novel, as it is Jochen's, is *The Looking Glass War, *surely,
>> maybe, almost "realistic" and one which Pynchon must have liked a lot since
>> he almost borrowed, alluded to,
>> a whole paragraph from late in the novel.
>>
>> One of the few writers Tom Pynchon ever mentioned in his prose. He may,
>> and from other places as well, have gotten his Russia-America pairings of
>> similarity via distillation of LeCarre's, eh?
>>
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89?CMP=oth_b-aplnewssandbox
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:45 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1338261957724545034?s=20
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>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:22 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1338251571969335298?s=20
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>>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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