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Michael Orthofer: belief

27 Jul 2016 Conversations with Tyler Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters

“I think on the more localized level in the bookstore, you hopefully get that as well.”

— Michael Orthofer

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Michael Orthofer
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belief
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27 Jul 2016
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Of course. I think on the more localized level in the bookstore, you hopefully get that as well. I think I’ve bought more than a hundred books because of you, so I thank you for that. Let’s say now I’m someone who more or less reads for a living. Maybe I write books, or I’m a book reviewer, or I’m a certain kind of journalist, or I work in publishing. You can give me advice at the margin — how to make a better book choice, something to buy and read. For that kind of person, it’s harder to give advice, right?…

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