The Parable Is a Wonderful Tool

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Sally Kohn: I'm so happy to hear you got through your writer's block. And I was so excited to know that there was a new book coming. Let's talk about the newest book because you are a fiction writer and a great one. She said it's about a lot of things, but it's mostly about the tiny little ways in which we save each other. It is my hymn to the life-saving importance of breaking away for a time. But they're very difficult, I think, to put close together in art.

Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.

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