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" I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Think

Storytelling

Feeling

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Doing

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Thought

New York

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New

Started

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University

Road

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Why

I Am

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Over

Narcissism

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Nature

Passionate

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Know

Film

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