"Cornish Barn"
new Reg SU unit please
John le Carré has donated his literary archive to Oxford's Bodleian Library, delivering a crushing blow to archive-hungry American universities and a well-known East Anglian breeding ground for moles alike. Le Carré, or David Cornwell to use his real name, studied modern languages at Oxford before becoming a civil servant cum …
So much wasted space. Writers need to learn to use revision control systems.
I used CVS, Emacs and some Perl scripts running on Debian GNU/Linux for the novel I wrote. It wasn't a bestseller. However, I'm not blaming my tools for that.
This is superb news. John Le Carré is without question one of the most rounded and important writers working in the world today. What he does well is to combine rip-roaring adventure stories with great character studies.
Lots of people write in the genre, but most gloss over peoples motivations. JLC's work and strength is a deep understanding of motivation (and not assuming it is James Bond/for king and country stuff - it is always VERY ambiguous and murky). And the fact it'll work its way online eventually is hugely exciting!