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775. Hernan Diaz

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Dream Trajectory for a Writer of Literary Fiction

Your debut novel was submitted without an agent to coffee house press. They picked it up off the slush pile, accepted it for blication. It went on to be nominated for the pen falkner, i believe, and the pizer prize. Is obviously a factor. The right person, the right time, the right mood, the right even, like political contaxt, for something to click. There are so many things that have to aline that don't depend on any one because they're collective things. If there were, people would control them. But you can't. And  the only reason too do it is because you love being in language.

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