I think it's very easy to lose sight of what the audience for a work of art wants. They don't want some abstract thing that fits every criteria of perfection. Janet Malcolm is a good example of this, or both. At the end of Michael Lewis book, you feel like you've been hanging out with him and have a window into his world. And my worry when I was reading them was that people weren't having that. That was not the experience my readers were having.

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