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First Draft - Sarah Manguso (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Is Your Book Like a Constellation?

I got a weird image in my head when you were talking, so here's what it was. All it's like the connection of all these things. Maybe the regular kind of novel is just like a sun. I think that might be an even closer metaphor to the kind of order that we're trying to make out of the absolute chaos that is all we have. It pleases me to be...the dark, mysterious type rather than te, you know, the, well, just sid cheerly.

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