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An interview focusing on baxter s creation of characters. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Essays on fiction at a lighthouse writers workshop. His understanding of the larger elements of fiction and the sort of honesty and responsibility a writer needs satisfied something deeper than mere craft.
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