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The gift of being underrated

‘This is what fuels a fiction writer: the ongoing life of the ideas we love. The saddest thing about a book failing to reach an audience is not the wound to the ego, but the ending of the conversation.’—author Ilka Tampke reflects on the meaning of her novel Songwoman (Text)...

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