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First Draft - Sarah Manguso (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Is There Something in You That You Don't Want to Be Seen?

"I want total control over what i put out there in representation of myself," she says. "It's a little bit easier you can base a character, or part of a character, on somebody who actually existso at one point i realized that i was thinking about the side of this person that i was writing about in this new novel as having the character's name, not a person's name." The book is due to be published by Simon & Schuster next year.

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