Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. ✨ Arundhati Roy reading …

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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. ✨ Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. September 18, 2002.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. ✨ Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. September 18, 2002.

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