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Tin House Live : Rebecca Makkai on The Ear of the Story

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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How to Write a Good Book

Don't listen to people who are trying to universalize your thing, she says. You can do glossing and by glossing giving a little definition or an explanation of context sometimes. Or you can do it stealthily. I'm going to own that decision. She's treating this head on. She's just explaining. Here is what traders' milk is. What's interesting is the only person thinks she doesn't explain to us is Mink. It's almost like we're meeting her. We're supposed to know already. But then we get down to no way was he going to marry a garments girl. Oh, okay. If I didn't get it at first, I get

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