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You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
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Lexington
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