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From: Artforum
Date: 20070901
Author:Dickstein, Morris

All Made Up Edmund White writes the novel Stephen Crane never did HOTEL DE DREAM: A NEW YORK NOVEL BY EDMUND WHITE NEWYORK: ECCO. 240 PAGES. $24.

"Write what you know" has been an axiom of fiction writing since the '20s, when Sherwood Anderson urged it on the young Faulkner; Edmund White took it to heart in his third novel, still his best-known work, A Boy's Own Story (1982). White's coming-of-age tale led to a series of autobiographical fictions, including The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), Skinned Alive (stories, 1995), The Farewell Symphony (1997), and The Married Man (2000), that broke ...

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