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I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler – unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said – in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don’t read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.

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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

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April 26, 2024

The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

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April 26, 2024

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

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