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✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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The Impossibility of Writing a Biography

I don't feel particularly connected to my name, and I like changed my name a couple times when I was a kid. The name that I publish under it is my given name but my last name was my given middle name which goes back through many generations on my mother's side. Nothing really feels like it belongs to me anymore so the ridiculousness of naming yourself acts comes up in this book.

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