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Ep 603 - Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

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The Importance of Defamiliarizing Things

I felt incredible trepidation about writing about motherhood and marriage. I was particularly not interested in writing a book that had an affair in it because I thought we've read that a million times. She's saying a lot of like man I would never write a book about a writer who gets as a kid and gets divorced but except for this one time just this one time I'm going to say well and then it seems to have paid off for her.

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