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Terry Pratchett mounts a faultless defence of what he calls a ‘ghettoised’ genre: The first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning. They did not complain about the difficulties of the male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some Midwestern college cam
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With sufficient care, that wheelbarrow full of things could become an entire system of meaning, saying truthful things about our world, some of which might have been impossible to say via a more conventionally realistic approach. That system would mean, not by the plausibility or acuity of its initial premise, but by the way it reacts to that premi
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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