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- George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was a huge literary inspiration for me. Here’s what the first edition looked like, together with some later covers. [1 of 3]
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today’s Very Short List:
lit 11 Sep 2012
by Simon Lelic, author of the novel The Facility, out now. WEBSITE TWITTER BOOK
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- I’m not a huge Foo Fighters fan, but while I was writing The Facility, this song was stuck in my mind, particularly the line “No one’s getting out of here alive...” [2 of 3]
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- Much of my research for the book centered on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts, is a seminal, devastating account. [3 of 3]
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- Images (in order): first edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four via Flavorwire; screen grab of DOA; photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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