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How Award-Winning Novelist & Pulitzer Finalist Hernan Diaz Writes

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

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The Research Process

The book starts sort of in the 18 eighties ish and ends in the 19 eighties. So it spans effectively a whole century. And weirdly enough, like the eighties are far away enough to require a little bit of digging too. It feels strange for this middle aged person to say this, but it's true. I come from the humanities, i dont, i don't know a lot about money and that whole thing, you know, the rhetoric of money. That is one side. Another another interesting side is that i looked at,. ah, the personal papers of theof some of the wives of real american typoons.

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