Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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I Feel That Affection for Moose
I know throughout your career you have thoroughly, repeatedly refuted any comparison between the people in your life in the characters in your book. But i have to say, i can't shake the character of moose and look at me. And then more recently, this scene in candy house on page 68, with miles in the hot air balloon. When it comes to am does he sort of remain in the work? I probably should refine my claim that i don't use people i know, and add the word knowingly because, to be fair, you know, what else do i have to work with? On some level, i am using the stuff of life and extrapolating away from it as
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