I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its…

Richard Russo
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

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