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ESQ: Our political climate is so polarized these days. How do you think about political fiction now?

A story is a place where politics takes off its stiff clothing and puts on some pajamas. You suddenly see that politics always shows up in people’s lives. Fiction gives those people room to move around. But this is where the skill comes in, because if it’s just overt propaganda, fiction

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