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Authors of two new novels draw inspiration from history in wildly different ways

NPR's Book of the Day

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This chapter delves into how novelists, particularly Emma Donoghue, find creative motivation in historical events. Donoghue shares insights about her novel, The Paris Express, which is inspired by a significant train crash from 1895.

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