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104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Importance of Six-Word Stories

As novels, they are perfect to short stories. They give you something to push off from and an impetus to be creative within the structure that you've got. The brevity of it is part of the greatness of that tiny story. Check off his short stories of some of the greatest pieces of literature. There are what you can tell in a few pages. And with that restriction, I'm not going to give myself a whole novel. I'm going to tell this beautiful jewel, this crystalline perfection in afew pages. That makes it better. These short stories would not be better.

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