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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Atrocities Confronted Experience Facts Fiction Foreign Imaginable Makes Often Realm Unimaginable

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A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Act Capable Conflict Descent Even Grant Human Human Nature Humanity Incomprehensible Making Men Men And Women Monsters Nature Novel Offer Only Particular Those View Who Women

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For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: After Boy Comic Comic Strip Daily Doctrine His John More Named Packed Preached Predestination Set Strip Stuffed Than Theologian Tiger Vocabulary Who Whose Words

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It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Another Beloved Body Encountered Ever Falling Hard Met More Someone Them Think Universally Who Without Work

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Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Any Characters Childhood Deeper Deeper Meaning Grown Me Meaning Only Reading Regularity Return Two

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Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Argued Artistic Artistic Expression Aware Better Bill Comic Comic Strip Consumer Culture Daily Disposable Eclipsed Even Expression He His Lining Masterpiece Medium Newspaper Our Strip Than Today Tomorrow Too

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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Began Career Century Chechnya Childhood Final First Forms He His Northern Novel Set Tolstoy War While Writing 19Th Century

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During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: About Asia Available Central Century Chechnya English Little Local Novelists Poets Russia Translation Very Well Writers Written 20Th Century

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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