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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 Was Formless, I Lacked Something That Other People Get, Love

"My key characteristic up until the moment I wrote Save the Agnes was formlessness. I didn't know anything about my shape or identity or essence," she says. "I realized now that I lacked something that other people, even if in a rudimentary way, an essential thing that other people get ... which is love."

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