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Alice McDermott

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A perfect poem you can’t pin down and say, ‘This is exactly what it meant to me.’ It’s not a self-help manual.

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I was in something called ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ which was a real cult comedy; it’s sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it’s kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

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Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

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April 21, 2024

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

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April 21, 2024

I was in something called ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ which was a real cult comedy; it’s sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it’s kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

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