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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

I've Got Some Shit That I Want to Say, Right?

I made a very deliberate choice never to use the word Democrat or Republican. I wanted in the story to send them out into this world, having left an anxiety center kind of private psych hospital for teenagers to go out and try to go on a quest. The structure of the book became very rooted in the fantasy novel. It was an adventure novel that allowed me to say that the fantasy world that they're exploring is ours.

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