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Delight: An Appreciation of Henry James
- The Henry James Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2012
- pp. 205-215
- 10.1353/hjr.2012.0019
- Article
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A fiction writer's relationship to novels and stories she reads differs from that of other readers. No matter what a writer's conscious mind may be focused on, her subconscious is always on alert, constantly gathering anything that may somehow be of use. In this article, Silko talks about Henry James and Indians, the process of writing Gardens in the Dunes, and the aid and influence Henry James provided.