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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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I Want to Get Away From Identity, but I Believe in Moments of Truth

I wanted to get away from identity. I don't really believe in character. I believe in moments of truth. People that interest me are the ones that when they have a moment of elevation and they get a bit of a view of themselves, they are interested in finding out what the truth is. It's people wanting to know whether the difference between what they truly think and what appears to be,. Whether that difference, that gap, is writing and whether they can express their own truth.

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