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" I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life. "
Book
My Own
Own
" I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large. "
Country
Need
Nationalism
" It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference. "
Same
Easy
Frame
" It's no sin to tell a good story. "
Good Story
Tell
Story
" I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.' "
Used
More
Story
" I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way. "
Writing
Travel
Now
" Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. "
Always
Touch
Experiences
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