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“I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.”

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Noy Holland
Noy Holland

Noy Holland, born on December 3, 1960, is an accomplished writer known for his diverse literary works and unique narrative style, which reflects a profound humanistic concern. more

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