This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. (Salman Rushdie)

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Salman Rushdie

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