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Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

~Michelle Dean

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My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

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Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

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Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters.

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Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

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We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.

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Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

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There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager to critique technological advancements.

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Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a single writer's philosophy - or it can become a hindrance, a thick layer of algae that weighs down the storytelling.

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Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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