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If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Jeff VanderMeer
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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
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Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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