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Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)

New Books in Literature

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How to Write a Letter of Recommendations

I love writing letters in other voices I think that direct address is something that truly arrests a reader, right, when it's you. And then what I do is that proxy feeling of when there's that pronoun when you say oh me. Right. The first person is very limiting. You want to get out of the first person and also how do you talk about things that this guy who was born in the Bronx, and then goes out in the western you know Chicago County New York,. he wasn't around for. He's a national hero or he's like a national threat. It doesn't make up.

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