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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

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Walter Kirn

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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer… Being a critic wasn’t an aspiration of mine.

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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have ‘takes,’ and it’s their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

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June 13, 2024

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have ‘takes,’ and it’s their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

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June 13, 2024

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer… Being a critic wasn’t an aspiration of mine.

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