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A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How to Avoid a Check List of DSM Symptoms

i loved i wanting to avoid a check list of d s m symptoms, which is almost what the new yorker critic parl sagel said in this recent essay on the trama plot. So i'm wondering how you go about avoiding flattening out these very real, terrible things that have happened to people when you're presenting them in this fictional way. I don't think stories are the best sort of venue to give a kind of a lecture. The needs of making a good story don't really loan themselves to a in depth, detailed, specific thought through analytical exploration of like, a thing.

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