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On finding ideas

Karen McCarthy Woolf

‘She spoke to hardly anyone except her vast collection of antique dolls, and constructed a bizarre hierarchy between porcelain, rag and plastic dolls that mirrors the real-life absurdities of race.’

Why do I write?

Karen McCarthy Woolf

‘I wrote to transform a profound grief. I clung to the natural environment, to the sea, the horizon, trees. They seemed permanent, something that couldn’t be lost or taken from me.’

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