Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer

On Thursday, the novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of the most pointed criticisms of Ms. Lessing came from Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and literary critic, who told The Associated Press, “Although Ms. Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable.”

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