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* '''BB: James Baldwin turns up several times in the text, and we love the quotation you chose for the beginning of the book. How much of an influence has his work been to you?'''
PA: When I first read [[Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Dostoyevsky's ''Notes From The Underground]] '' and got to know and love his character, underground man, I knew I wanted to write. When I read James Baldwin I understood why I wanted to write.
* '''BB: Can literature make real changes to society?'''
