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    "id": 5539,
    "subject": "Wolfe/Gaiman",
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    "first": "2010-01-18T14:53:01+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2010-01-18T14:53:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe/Gaiman",
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          "text": "     \"Gaiman got his start as a journalist-for-hire, in England. He\ndidn’t go to college. His first book was a Duran Duran biography he\nfinished in three months, using a clip file from the BBC; next, he\nwrote a biography of Douglas Adams, in the style of Douglas Adams.\nGaiman says that, especially in the early stages of his career, “I was\nvery, very good at taking a voice that already existed and just\nparodying it.” He describes his short piece “We Can Get Them for You\nWholesale” as him doing John Collier. “A Study in Emerald” is his\nversion of Sherlock Holmes, by way of H. P. Lovecraft. The writer Gene\nWolfe says that “Sunbird,” Gaiman’s story about an epicurean club that\neats the mythical phoenix, “is so much in the style of R. A. Lafferty\nit’s almost as if Lafferty were dictating it from Heaven.” Gaiman\nstill writes on demand, composing for anthologies (the living-statue\nstory was an assignment), birthdays, and holidays. Now that he is\nwidely read, he is apt to publish even the most ephemeral of these\nofferings, often between hard covers and with lavish illustrations.\nLast spring, he released “Blueberry Girl,” a bit of doggerel written\nfor his friend Tori Amos when she was expecting her first child.\n(“Help her to help herself, help her to stand, / help her to lose and\nto find. / Teach her we’re only as big as our dreams. / Show her that\nfortune is blind.”) It spent five weeks on the best-seller list for\nchildren’s picture books. \"\nhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all\n\nI have the vague feeling that I've see that Wolfe quote before."
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