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19 Jul 2017 Conversations with Tyler Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
“I’m totally absorbed and loved them. But I feel like Elena Ferrante is an example of someone who was doing much the same—deeply mining the territory of somebody over a history of time—but managed to do it by fixing them in a place and a time and a history, and a dramatic change in social conditions, and everything else that took it to this whole another level in my mind.”
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- Atul Gawande
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- 19 Jul 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Karl Knausgård? Knausgård. Overrated. I’ve read about half of the trilogy. I’m totally absorbed and loved them. But I feel like Elena Ferrante is an example of someone who was doing much the same—deeply mining the territory of somebody over a history of time—but managed to do it by fixing them in a place and a time and a history, and a dramatic change in social conditions, and everything else that took it to this whole another level in my mind. What makes you weep?…
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