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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It__ perceived as an accolade to be published as a __iterary_ writer, but, actually, it__ pompous and it__ fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I__ always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incredibly afraid of lonely people teaming up, and so it does its best to keep them apart.

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.