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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren't, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

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Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

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If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

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Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell

Born: April 25, 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto, was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
Known for:
  1. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009)
  2. Edisto (1984)
  3. Cries for Help, Various: Stories (2015)
  4. You & Me: A Novel (2012)
  5. Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)

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