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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
Dylan Moran
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Dylan Moran
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 3
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Dylan William Moran
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