I Think It's a Question That Lands Differently Depending on How You're Choosing to Read

I have ambivalent feelings about the whole thing and I would never be so disingenuous to say that I wouldn't be upset if I found out a fiction writer was who they said. done because it's not true and it's never great to generalize but I think on the whole there is an obsession with authenticity these days. It feels more exploitative to pretend to have had an experience that you haven't had writing entire book about it when it's all an out and out pretends, she says.

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