Go Ask Alice Part 3 with Rick Emerson and Carmen Maria Machado
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Don't Believe the Truth
i believed, and i believe, that books have the power to just have truth in them almost all the time. That's truly what i believed about books as a cub. And i really, it's funny, cause i'm so disabused of that now, and i spend so much time thinking about hoax non fiction. I mean, one of the things i think people don't realize is how flimsy publishings apparatus is. The publishing industry essentially runs on an honor system. If you're going to follow an honor system, guess what? You don't need the honor system.
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