Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
As people accuse fiction of presumption, vanity, appropriation, and putting words in peoples’ mouths, one of our most brilliant writers shows us what fiction does best, which is compassionately imagining ourselves as other people, so we can understand who they, and human beings, truly are.
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New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 17, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,137 words)