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Poetry Stories: The Novelist

Poetry Stories: The Novelist

Chapter 20. Kind of a personal question.

Aug 18, 2023
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Laura had raised the issue once with James, about how fiction skated the line between truth and lies. But James had told her it was all the same thing; even if a story was a flat-out lie, it was true “by my lights.” He had said that—by my lights—and this had made Laura smile…

—L.L. Barkat, from chapter 20 of The Novelist

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