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Never knew about Vikram Seth before. He's coming up on beating Joseph Mitchell's 30 years of not finishing anything: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/ju

• mprovost 2y ago
  I really recommend his novel-in-verse "The Golden Gate". Such a literary accomplishment, and a real page-turner. Maybe it's hard to follow up when you have such an early success? Actually, I was introduced to it by Douglas Hofstadter, who in the same way has never been able to top GEB, which he wrote in his early 30s.