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““In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next . . .””

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But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one…

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think…

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