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S3E4 | Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau)

The Paris Review

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Saving Agnes - How Did It Start?

It was a burning experience of molding myself. It's the only thing I've ever had that feeling of what it takes to master something. You say that saving Agnes came out of some real self and there was a real expression. And you also say that the form that you were writing in was something that you had been given, something that had come from reading. So can you talk about saving Agnes when you remember writing that book? Yes.

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