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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Is There a Difference Between Earth Sign Literatalism and Aquarium Air Sign?
Hanukkah: I think there is absolutely a kind of, you know, in Toni Morrison's playing in the dark, she talks about if the word she uses when she's talking about how people manage not to talk about race and literature and race in literature is evasion. Like it's more elegant, there's this elegant language of evasion that says that it's more civilized, more worthy of literature. And I remember thinking about that and holding that for a long time. But as someone who has experienced, who has some experience with the kinds of abuse that john Berger or, or, or that I'm talking about in that essay, understand how ambiguity and indeterminacy and very
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