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The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

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The Impossibility of Saying What You Want

Most of the book is about them trying not to. And then eventually things get so bad that things couldn't get worse. I thought the email was passive aggressive, but at the same time, very mature because I think a lot of women might not have had that grace if that's the right word to compose that kind of email. When it's aggressive, it's clinical, which is like creepy.

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