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Francine Prose on the pleasures of writing non-fiction vs. fiction

By Anita Mathias

Sandy Asviratham interviewing Francine Prose.  She’s enjoying the break that nonfiction represents.  “It’s so much more fun, because I can use the skills I’ve figured out as a novelist to create narratives, but since the story is there already, there’s no terror that you’re not going to find a way out.”  At this stage, is she able to trust the process of tale-telling when she sits down to face the blank page?  I don’t think you ever get to that point of complete trust.  But somehow, it gets done.”

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