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Workshop 8: Tom Perrotta

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Jan 29, 2016

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Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes. Recently, he provided the foreword to a new Penguin edition of The Scarlet Letter.

We made a date with him and settled into a corner of Harvard Book Store to ask him about his writing process.

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Jan 29, 2016

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A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.

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