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Part of the Dialogue

I'm sitting in a coffee shop, drinking a pumpkin-spice-Zeitgeist matcha latte, when without warning my head splits open and a novel bursts forth and displaces the Weltschmerz-and-bacon-ketchup muffin on the table before me. It is part of a dialogue with other books and other writers and with the culture itself.

Part of the Dialogue

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I'm sitting in a coffee shop, drinking a pumpkin-spice-Zeitgeist matcha latte, when without warning my head splits open and a novel bursts forth and displaces the Weltschmerz-and-bacon-ketchup muffin on the...

It is part of a dialogue with other books and other writers and with the culture itself.

So, here is a list of some books and writers that have been part of that dialogue for me for my novel.

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I'm sitting in a coffee shop, drinking a pumpkin-spice-Zeitgeist matcha latte, when without warning my head splits open and a novel bursts forth and displaces the Weltschmerz-and-bacon-ketchup muffin on the table before me. It is part of a dialogue with other books and other writers and with the culture itself. So, here is a list of some books and writers that have been part of that dialogue for me for my novel.

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  • Some of these writers provided blurbs (I asked them because something about them and their work inspired me and suggested that Comedian's might resonate with them.) Some of these writers are my friends...

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