Nicole Krauss on Seeing Manhood Through a Woman’s Eyes
“A resistance to reduction has guided me in the kind of characters I’m drawn to inhabit.”
Thomas Gebremedhin
Thomas Gebremedhin is a former senior editor at The Atlantic.
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“There’s an urgency when you’re a teenager, experiencing things for the first time, that you can’t really get back.”
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“An epidemic is a narrative gold mine: It ups the stakes for the most everyday interaction between characters, because every kiss becomes a gamble.”
Andrew Chin / Getty / The Atlantic Souvankham Thammavongsa on the Inner Lives of Children
“The present is always haunted by the things that have happened in childhood.”
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