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Joan Didion on why she writes

Le Gibet (The Gallows)

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What do I see stirring around the Gallows? ---Faust Ah, what is this I hear? Could it be the moaning of the evening North Wind, or the sighing of a hanged man at the sinister crossroads? Could it be the singing of a cricket burrowed into the moss and bleak…
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How to not be boring

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VseQe4TFsg From The Paris Review’s interview with Kurt Vonnegut: VONNEGUT When you exclude plot, when you exclude anyone’s wanting anything, you exclude the reader, which is a mean-spirited thing to do. You can also exclude the reader by not telling him immediately where the story is taking place, and who…
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