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Laura van den Berg

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If I leave the fictional world for too long, it’s a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before.

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I’ve always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, ‘If no one is in danger of dying, I’m not interested,’ but of course I’m not really joking.

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I don’t know what it is about me. I don’t know if there’s something strange… but I continue to play aliens, so there’s obviously something there.

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May 5, 2024

I don’t know what it is about me. I don’t know if there’s something strange… but I continue to play aliens, so there’s obviously something there.

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May 5, 2024

I’ve always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, ‘If no one is in danger of dying, I’m not interested,’ but of course I’m not really joking.

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