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Hi, We read "The Incendiaries" and really enjoyed it and look forward to your future work! When you have a piece of fiction published, such as your novel or your other short pieces, do you go back and read them? I could understand if you don't, given the amount of hard work required to publish something or could it be a case of "these characters have said all they want to say to me" (if that makes sense)?

R.O. Kwon I love this question—and thank you for the kind words! It varies, to be honest. I've reread some short pieces, but I haven't reread my novel in full since I last edited it. I think often of what the artist Louise Bourgeois said when someone asked how she knew a sculpture was finished: she said it was when the questions stopped. That was, in part, how I knew I'd finished this novel.

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loved the book! and now I'll add a question mark cuz goodreads makes me :) ?

R.O. Kwon Thank you so much, Bart! I really appreciate that.

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When you were writing The Incendiaries, what did you consider the most crucial part of the process?

R.O. Kwon The easiest answer would be all of it—I wanted to get all of it right! But I'll also say that I love, love sentences. I can think about a single sentence all day. I wanted to get this novel to a place where I could open it, pick out any line at random, and not want to revise it all over again.

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