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“The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.”

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Roz Chast is a renowned cartoonist known for her distinctive style and humorous take on family dynamics and the complexities of modern life. Born on November 26, 1954, Chast attended the Cooper Union for the Arts and began her career with her work being published in The New Yorker, which eventually garnered widespread recognition. more

“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.”

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Author:Debra Dean

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