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Is a life spent as a writer's muse a life worth living?

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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 20060618
Author:SUSAN CAMPBELL, THE HARTFORD COURANT

SUSAN CAMPBELL, THE HARTFORD COURANT
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-18-2006

Is a life spent as a writer's muse a life worth living?
By SUSAN CAMPBELL, THE HARTFORD COURANT
Date: 06-18-2006, Sunday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Edtion: All Editions

* MEMOIRS OF A MUSE, by Lara Vapnyar; Pantheon, 212 pages, $22.95.

There is no higher calling for Russian immigrant Tatiana Rumer than to be the muse of a great writer.

She has chosen this career after growing up in Moscow under the watchful gaze of a portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky. She knows Dostoevsky because his picture adorns the walls of her mother's ...

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