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“This is the effort every novelist must make. . . attempting to tell as much of the truth as one can bear, and then a little more.”
James Baldwin

This is pretty much what James Baldwin did, whether he was writing a novel or essays, poetry or plays. Because in every genre, the writer’s task is to tell something true enough to matter to both the writer and …

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