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447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)

The History of Literature

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Is Your Mother's Acting for Your Parents' Separation?

I wanted to be an actor and my mother was like, oh, definitely, I'm not doing anything this out. And that definitely, you know, I don't say it's blame them, but the association of the older performance was there was a kind of destructive power to it. But I did have this very primal memories of visiting my mother in the green room and watching her. In fact, one of my earliest memories was as a five-year-old boy watching my mother die in a plane and open here at theater. This actually forms the opening scene of my novel, five-year old boy watching his mother die. And he thinks she's really dying. So the terrifying

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