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Did Boonin Lose His Artistic Mojo?
I was very touched by the story of Boonin that he lost his artistic mojo, essentially. He came to the Great Short Story Area, a Russian short story. Right. Well, he kind of epitomizes the loss of readership because Boonin was a huge figure in Tsar as Russia. That's where some of the other writers, he comes to Paris and now his community is shrunken. And also, many of the Russian emigres was too preoccupied earning a crust to actually want to buy short stories by Boonin or any of the others. The poets suffered horribly. No one really, they're all too depressed and exhausted to be buying books
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