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Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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