Why are animals so central to Sigrid Nunez’s thinking about the status of fiction?
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“I grew up with this very firm sense that there were multiple places that I could consider a home, rather than homes simply.”
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“It’s wonderful to be haunted by characters; because they aren’t ‘real,’ they can do or say anything.”
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“Rather than thinking of creative arts and sciences as ‘two cultures,’ we should realize that they’re running on parallel tracks.”
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“An author’s photo is more appealing to the consumer than the publisher’s colophon.”
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"When you call book autofiction, you released yourself from the responsibility of actually looking at what the book is doing."
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“As I continued to wander its world, I began to realize Tears of the Kingdom marks a new achievement in art itself.”
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"I wanted to make nature a source of conflict, but also a source of joy and beauty and wonder and delight."
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“Seven Moons” makes space for the cacophony of ghostly voices of those killed and disappeared in Sri Lanka’s long civil war.
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We may never know what goes on in the rooms where literary prizes are decided, but thanks to data, we know exactly who was there.
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