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Gary Indiana's "Do Everything In The Dark"

LARB Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Different Process of Writing Crime Stories

In those books, you were working off real life figures and inventing interiority for them. And in this case, many of the people you did know that you were using as the kind of model for what you were writing. What was the different process in a way? The crime stories were all based on very identifiably real stories but I think what was misunderstood at the time that those books were published was that these stories had already been processed through the collective mangle.

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