April 13. Samuel Beckett’s birthday. For me, Beckett is the greatest writer of the twentieth century. I’ve thought this for a long time, and I think I will continue to think it for a long time. In my eyes nobody comes even remotely close to his work. In the afternoon I read Company—one of his last texts—and am struck again by its brilliance. I haven’t r…
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