life is like an enormous pavlova - by Brandon
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pub day, plans!
Hello friends— Instead of working on my novel, I am writing to you because yesterday, May 23, The Late Americans was released. It’s my third book, and I think it represents a real step forward at the level of craft and storytelling and discursive and intellectual sophistication. I grew up, basically. As an artist. As a person, I am still childish. One time, my grandpa said to me, “You ain’t raised yet.” I was in college which in my mind meant that I was fully grown. “You ain’t raised yet,” he said. And I said, “Well, that’s your daughter’s fault.” And he said, “Yeah, I know. She ain’t…
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