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ANN PATCHETT Orange prize-winner advocates clear thinking
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BIYI BANDELE Characters come of age in torrid circumstances
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EWAN MORRISON Getting reconnected through extreme choices
For any writer who spends most ol their time away all on their own rn a darkened corner, its essential to have a release and to get some thoughts on the” work from people they know (tIICI trust. For an author such as Ii‘.‘.'(Ilt Morrison. (luhhetl notorroush as a 'purveyor' of eruurte Irlth', getting that second oornron hasn't proved as Illtin‘, as you'd think. 'A friend of mine rtalled up one night and said. “I really neeri some pornographic material; you got anything in your I)ook':’"'. he recalls: 'So_ I sent her over a (toot and she called later: "well tried to read that thing and rt was really horny hut l enuea‘ up UIVIIIQ ht the end of rt'T'
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