Noah Kumin 

"Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back."

Turned out he had no disease and had just been drinking too much. But his wife, also an alcoholic, died of cirrhosis of the liver only a decade later. Burgess married the Italian translator of A Clockwork Orange six months after first wife’s death. Later he suspected that the colonial doctor in Brunei intentionally misdiagnosed him with …

The best version of this is Anthony Burgess being given a year to live and writing five novels in that time to leave his wife with some income.

One of them was A Clockwork Orange which he wrote in 3 weeks.

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Could someone link me a piece that was making the rounds here a few days ago? The piece was about how fiction should not ignore contemporary reality—something along those lines. Thank you