Feeling Good (On Ian McEwan)

Feeling Good

Like a writer on a good day, when inspiration is high, who feels he can write like Ian McEwan can. Until the next day, after the inspiration has faded, and he realizes that he cannot.

“He felt purified and redeemed, like a penitent in the perfect penitentiary, like an elated medieval flagellant with a freshly flayed back.”

Ian McEwan, Solar