A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
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A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
a friend told me to come up with ten titles. “Do it fast,” she said. “Don’t think about it too much.” She said to type each title on a separate sheet of paper, and underneath type, a novel by Ann Patchett. I was then to tape them all to the wall. Every evening, in those last weeks at the Work Center, I invited the other fellows over to pull a singl
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