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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - rerun

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Confronting Tiny Moments

Fiction is for other people in a way to sleep out. It's transmuting it into this other thing. The brilliance of the book, as is the brilliance of Maxwell that John was just talking about. I've so full of admiration for people who can do that. We've all done tiny, tiny things that no one else knows about but we feel shit about. And he's confronting that and saying, in this tiny moment,. something shifted for me and I'm going to go back and write about him.

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