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" I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. "

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" What genre it falls under is only of interest later. "

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" So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. "

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" It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. "

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" I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. "

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" I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. "

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" Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. "

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" The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. "

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