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“So I wrote Interpreter of Maladies; that was my first book. I called it that — I heard the title in this strange flash.”
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“To continue the whirlwind tour of your career — in preparing for this, I reread Interpreter of Maladies, and this was the sense I had this time around: that one of your characters, Mr.”