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Robert Birnbaum talks to Jim Harrison (True North just came out.) Here’s a tidbit:

RB: Jim Shepard told me that one of his students remarked he was reading a story Shepard had in Esquire but had not yet finished it. Shepard was incredulous, since it was a three-page story.
JH: This is interesting. You can say, ‘What is it that you do in place of [reading]? Drink Spritzers?’ I don’t know. Does anyone have time to read? I do. And I write a lot. It’s a tonic to find real readers because they just read massively.

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