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A tennis match, an underground cave, watching images of Earth from orbit … Rachel Kushner, Yael van der Wouden, Charlottte Wood, Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey and Anne Michaels reveal the genesis of their ideas
Writing Creation Lake was a uniquely blissful experience. The novel synthesised into one object many things I think about and feel connected to, in terms of who we are and how we’re meant to live, and how to maintain an exalted idea of human life despite doubt and chaos. My narrator infuses the novel with an ambience of betrayal, an aspect that has stayed mysterious to me, but the mechanism that makes art work might operate best with critical parts unshown, even to their maker.
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