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Matthew Specktor

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Geoff Dyer: The Art of Nonfiction No. 6

“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”

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From the Longform archive: George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami and 25 more writers on writing.

Geoff Dyer, Matthew Specktor Paris Review Nov 2013 35min Permalink