Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticArgentinian author César Aira doesn’t work the way other writers do: Most mornings, according to routine, Aira takes a seat at a Buenos Aires café and picks up where he left off, responding to what he sees around him.
His is a spontaneous style, shaped by chance or whatever may have happened the day before, or even by what he watched on television. “If a little bird enters into the café where I’m writing — it did happen once — it also enters into what I’m writing,” Aira has explained.I was reminded of Aira’s method when watching “Let Them All Talk,” an HBO Now original feature in which Meryl Streep plays a novelist of considerable acclaim struggling to finish her latest novel.
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