writer 0 2005-10-16T00:00:00Z In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room twitter' and why the great issues of the day were shunned by writers, unlike their counterparts in, say, Latin America, who felt a responsibility to take ... John 40500 false true false false 2005-10-16T00:00:00Z Pilger 8941 5193 0 1 The Silence of Writers the-silence-of-writers-by-john-pilger The Silence of Writers 2009-09-25T04:21:25Z 182