August 5, 2005
4 Writers Who Published and Then Stopped
THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE: When a writer goes silent, is he or she still producing a readable text? Most of us would say no. But Myles Weber, an assistant professor of English at Ashland University, in Ohio, argues that in the absence of new work, a writer's silence itself can be read.
In Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish (University of Georgia Press), Mr. Weber studies the cases of four fiction writers, two living and two dead, who famously stopped writing and
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