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Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Good
Things
Entertains
Fiction
Challenges
Days
Much

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