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429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard)

The History of Literature

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The Other Writers: Who Would You Invite?

The first person i thought of was edith wharton because she, she'd be good company. But that's actually not who it's going to be. Chekov and wright would get along like a couple of old friends. They both came from poor, hard scrabble parents. And they worked very hard to become writers in a milieu where, you know, not much encouraged them to be writers.

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