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Tag: emotional fiction

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Emotional fiction with moral heft

January 12, 2013by Jenny May AcklandLeave a Comment on Emotional fiction with moral heft

From a recent New York Times piece on writer George Saunders, I took a few notes. I found it fascinating what he says about fiction and the idea of 'emotional fiction' especially. The thing on the table was emotional fiction. How do we [Franzen, DFW and Ben Marcus] make it? How do we get there? [...]

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