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“You should only bluff if you are prepared for the life it brings you,” my dad said. “You bluff, then you can’t go back.”
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...moreGayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press.
...moreMy gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
...moreMaybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
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...moreAuthor Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
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...moreRick Moody talks about the newly collected writings of the elusive Reginald Edward Morse, Hotels of North America, and why fiction in general ought to lie more.
...moreTelling lies is easy. Waiting for those lies to be exposed is much harder.
...moreArtists and certain brain damage patients have overlapping tendencies—lying or “chronic confabulation,” in neuroscience vernacular. The difference is in that writers fabricate experiences and consciously control their associations whereas people who have incurred frontal lobe damage may be unable to stop the rush of associations and storytelling inclinations. In sum, lying is both a natural […]
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