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Chuck Klosterman on Writing, Being Wrong, and The Nineties

The Daily Stoic

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The End of the Teapyshow New Heart

i think there's an unconscious idea that television, the experience of watching a t v show, is now more like the experience to watching a film. The madman was the clearest example of this. I don't know if you watch madmen, but late in that show, the character of joan makes this kind of, this this interesting decision where it's like she sleeps with a guy in order to get an account for the for jaguar cars. In life, we expect people to make decisions they would never normally make all the time. But in fiction, you can't do that. There can be no accidents. An that's why writing fiction is so much harder than

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