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"The thing that puzzled him was why people don't agree to be fully expressed while they're alive. Why does it only happen in their last moment? Why wouldn't you live being fully expressed?"
My guest today is AL Kennedy. She is one of Britain’s most acclaimed and versatile literary voices, a writer who can inhabit the internal life of a soldier in a POW camp, as she did in her Costa Book Award-winning novel Day, as easily as she can navigate the "professional lying" of a modern civil servant.
Her latest novel,
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Al Kennedy, Alive in the Merciful Country, theater, books,The Creative Process, Spy Cop scandal, UK politics, environmental activism, creative writing process, Alfred Wolfson voice method, AI and literature, education, democracy, Minnesota, ICE
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