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Confident Mediocrity: A Look at Celebrity Interviews

This chapter explores interviews with celebrities and authors, highlighting a particularly negative encounter with an arrogant writer known for a Western novel. The discussion contrasts this arrogance with themes of confidence and humility in literature, all while infusing humor into the observations of self-assuredness among mediocre white men.

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