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848. Patrick deWitt

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Importance of Control in Publishing

"I'll never get used to it when the book mixes way into the world and just sort of sit there and watch the world dissect it. That's a strange feeling," he says. "You're fascistically in control when you're, you know, you're in control as much as you can be in control of art when it's just yours" He doesn't think most writers have no clue about what people want but some are more finely tuned than others. 'It's like they have like a barometer for the cultural moment or something'

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