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Ian McEwan on Twitter and Shakespeare

Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Solar, sat down to answer readers' questions about whether Shakespeare would use Twitter, his next novel, and the pitfalls of text messaging.

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet

Ian McEwan poses an interesting question: If Shakespeare were alive today, would he be a "man of the Twitter"? Here, the author of Solar,

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