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Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, discusses her writing process, creative philosophy, and personal history with Stephen Dubner. She reveals how her aversion to repeating herself drives her stylistic evolution, how empathy shapes her character work, and how personal loss and fa
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