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Call it the semi-memoir, call it the autobiographical novel: an outpouring of deeply personal fiction from authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner—with more on the horizon this ...

“I’ll start tomorrow”, — I’ve said this to myself repeatedly — not ashamed to admit that. Writing a novel isn’t easy. Especially writing a good one. It takes a lot of planning, head-scratching, and ...

The narrator of Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline is a novelist and divorced mother of two who has agreed to teach a summer course in creative writing in Athens. The novel itself is composed of some 10 ...

‘Outline,” the remarkably original novel by Rachel Cusk, tells the story of a writer, numbed by heartbreak, who rediscovers the meaning of art and love through her conversations with others. The book ...

OUTLINE: A Novel. By Rachel Cusk. FSG. 249 pages. $26. In a poem from 1966, Robert Lowell wrote about “those blessed structures plot and rhyme.” The British writer Rachel Cusk is here to question ...