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A graphic showing a COVID-19 virus on a film strip along with a book and the Hollywood boulevard sign

A white woman with chin-length wavy red hair sits at a desk by a window with books stacked in piles on top

A book cover showing a stylised illustration of a young woman texting on a phone and a burning house behind her

"It felt right for the narrative arc and it was true to the world."

A group of friends walk arm in arm up a beach as a man tries to catch up with them from behind

"That piece of data has been quickly glossed over as people rush to move on with life, but that is a gob-smacking number of people who are simply gone."

A crowd of protesters, some wearing hats and sunglasses, holding picketing signs about the SAG-AFTRA strike

"It just takes one person's wild brain to make a novel."

"Sometimes it will take a few years for us to see these patterns."
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