Zombies, exiles and monsters
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How Do You Shape a Collection Like This?
My way of writing is just to try to start with a mess, get into a voice or something that you don't understand, and try to revise my way out of it. And what happens is your subconscious is there, and it will tell you what you're worried about, even if you don't know yourself. So after this last four or five years, look at the book, and it's all people who are either confused or, you know, deluded, and then they sort of try to stumble towards some kind of truth. It's a collection of also about having jobs, and a lot of your short stories are about having jobs. The submission that that involves, but also
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