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- Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since,…
- As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In…
- I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification…
- I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or…
- Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from…
- In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these…
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