The Melt by Jason Diamond

The Melt by Jason Diamond

We Should Write More Letters

Thoughts on paper. What a concept!

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Jason Diamond
Apr 06, 2023
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the practice of cleaning up the work of certain dead writers who were usually not great people in the first place. I just can’t wrap my head around how removing clues that add context to the time and place and give you a better insight into the characters in a novel helps anything. It’s not like I’m worried about Roald Dah…

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