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  • Progress: The Photoshoot
    Click on the pictures to make them big and see them in a swish gallery type thing.
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    On her blog, Elizabeth Baines* reports that Jonathan Franzen claimed to require blindfolded solitude in order to complete his novel. A requirement, like all the best stories about authors, that turned out to be apocryphal (i.e a lie). It reminded me of a game I did in the last workshop I taught before the summer more

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