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This reads as a defense of fiction as something deeper than advice. It can be taken to mean that books helped make inner life less lonely, by giving shape to feelings that were hard to name and offering a place to disappear into safely. It lands for anyone who has found relief in stories during a painful or isolating stretch.
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Books by Bill Clegg
Did you ever have a family
2015
Ninety days
2013
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