Your Literary Idols and Their Wardrobes

Think that it doesn’t matter what a writer wears? A new book says otherwise. Terry Newman's surprisingly convincing thesis is that the sartorial choices authors make are deeply connected to the narrative choices they make — or, as Beckett put it, “the fabric of language” they use. And that as a result, in developing their own idiosyncratic style signatures, they created trends that fashion itself seized on.
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