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Episode 55 | Nicholson Baker

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Power of Pointed Moments

There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not the way I thought I could write about it because look, let's say you're a press spokesman in London and, or a person in a, in a Polish ghetto or something,. You have things that trouble you and fill you with grief or resentment. Those, that approaching history that way as a series of pointed moments I think is just truer to life. That's why I liked writing the book. This is what happened at the meeting yesterday. There were other meetings and, and there's a long history, but we're not going to talk about this, what happened yesterday. Why did Roosevelt say this to the people of,

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