if not, Paris

if not, Paris

letters to friends

Letters to Chicago (cont.)

a conversation w/a comedian about censorship, James Baldwin & what my novels are usually about

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me in a diner somewhere in upstate New York, August, 2021

A few months back, I began writing letters to the Chicago-based satirist

Amran Gowani
. I don’t know Amran personally, but I’ve always enjoyed his wit, and it’s just one of the many joys of this Substack community that I now consider him a literary friend.

In our first exchange, we discussed writing as a form o…

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