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" I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. "

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" I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well. "

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