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Responding To The World with Jennifer Egan, Gary Shteyngart, Sequoia Nagamatsu and Ali Smith

The Waterstones Podcast

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The Audacity of Your Novel

i'm going to call it the audacityof your novel because, and i wonder whether the confidence to write those things comes from your story writing. I mean, i think if sat down to write a novel that had all these things in it, i probably would approach it differently, or wouldn't do it at all. Nd, i think part of the audacity, you know, was a result of its coming to me in a very sort of piecemale kaleidoscopic fashion. For for half of the book's life, it was kind of just individual pieces. And once i started to see the connections, i had to er out how to puzzle this together.

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