Jiang says long-form novels build a universe that expands imagination and empathy in a way younger readers now often miss.
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Novels
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang says Oh, John le Carre. He wrote these spy novels. He was very popular in a day. What? Um, so. So his most famous is the spy...
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"Um, you know, so, what I recommend is you read novels. Um, long -form novels. Because if you read long -form novels, they build..."
"Oh, John le Carre. He wrote these spy novels. He was very popular in a day. What? Um, so. So his most famous is..."
"but okay so i write novels okay i write novels okay and i'll i'll take my writing process um what happens is i get..."
"...then i keep on working and at the end of my novel what happens like i look back when it's like how's it possible..."
"...fictional characters like let's say you're writing a you're writing a novel right and and these characters they are now they did not existed..."
"a person writes a novel um the characters in their novel um is some summited if he's a good writer"
"difference like the um why do some writers write a good novel novel and others write a bad novel because"
"...that i've experienced in my life where um when i write novels like i just don't i don't create i just you know channel..."
"...oh what motivated me is um I was reading these romance novels and I was so enraptured by the plot by the idea of..."
"...know she she's what she's doing is she's reading a romance novel and she's trying to project her fantasies on to another person right..."
"dante's inferno reminds me a lot of uh the chinese uh novel journey to the west in the way that it's first of all..."
"Me. Is. A. Novel. But. It. Has. Really. Beautiful. Prose. And. It. It. The. Words. Are. Used. In. A. Way. That. Are. So. Unique...."
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