You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
Dana SpiottaThere are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.
Dana SpiottaAll roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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