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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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How Much Research Do You Have as a Novelist?

How do you go about researching such a book, which takes place over such an immense period of time? And secondly, how bound to that research do you feel as a novelist when constructing the life and the adventures of casual? Well, it's very important because I think, you know, I am a realistic novelist and I'm in the novel. So all the work I do, as it were, behind the scenes is to make that seem totally authentic and totally plausible.

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