✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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The Counterfactual United States
There's a fidelity to the people you're writing about. And yet when we want one I think okay there's a fiction so you know Catherine and they see is giving words to, for example, David Bowie or you know, or Patty Smith or something like that. There's this kind of collaging of real things that were said, but putting them in the mouths of other people then changing the context in which it was said or changing who it was said aboutOr whatever. Part of it is to just creating the kind of that very similar to the biography I wanted there to be a different voices and I can to some degree alter the way that I write to make it seem like
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