A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress , public domain.
Holding on to the great “What if?” requires a willingness to live wide-eyed.
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"Allan Gurganus, The Art of Fiction No. 248," The Paris Review, Issue 236, Spring 2021
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