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Why I like unlikable characters.
Bad Questions, the autobiographical fallacy, and me.
On the many ways to keep your place in the pages.
Why do we struggle to call ourselves what we are?
The pleasure of writing later in life.
Finding the words to write about tragedy.
Recalling a pivotal purchase from the late author’s long-ago DC bookstore.
My later-in-life writing success was well worth the wait.
