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And Smith's "the Fraud" is her best one yet. It's Dickensian and her protagonist is a white Scottish Catholic bisexual woman. That'll show 'em!

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Imagine: a person who grew up as an only child should be forbidden to write about characters with siblings; a person who lives in NYC should never dare to set a work in Paris or Kentucky. A person who never owned a pet shouldn't imagine the mental state of a guinea pig or a tiger. But how about:

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night . . . .

What would the Woke say to William Blake?

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