"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."

Food, Fiction, Liquor

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"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."

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"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"

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"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."

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