
Magic Lessons Ep. 205: “Call Your Real Life By Its True Name” featuring Gary Shteyngart
Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert
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How Do You Get to the Best Version of That Story?
i think part of the fear comes with that, because if i o bet entrusted with this story that needs to be told. But at the same time, every artist is aware of their limitations. And so you begin to, am i worthy of this story? So my first book, the russian lady tol handbook, a novel, came out o two thousand two dealt with a lot of these issues but it did feel almost a little too much. My next book, absurd e tan, was a novel with a kind of shied away from some of these issues. Instead of ameliorating itt, i spent a lot of y continuing it, making it worse.
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