Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

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  I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

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  I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

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  True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our