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The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Day You're Meeting Me and It's the Worst Day Ever

It's very brave but also not without the need to make sense of something which hurts. I think one of the great mysteries is that novelists often don't have self-knowledge in the way that we would think that they would have. We didn't do our blurb, did we? No, we didn't do blurb. It was loads wedidn't do this time. The extended edition with lots of extras in the back, including essays by people I've never heard of. But good letters from Tom Wolf and Dost-Passos and it's nicely produced as well, which matters.

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