Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
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Younow, Absurdity and Suflicta
amy. Trist: The whole book is shot through with humor. It felt like you were channelling a lot of the chinese literature of the later eighties, in the nineties. Am i wrong to think that's where some of your spiration came from? I suspected there had to be some kind of a back story. That felt like it was observed. Yes. S the yak springs station chapters, those were an absolute delight. That's whereyou managed to work in a lot of real humor. And so that chapter on the master class that he gave at the san francisco conservatory appeared. And it was wonderful to be able to go back and make something of
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