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‘Let it Marinate.’ Molara Wood’s First Draft

August/September 2020First DraftInterviews
Author, curator, editor and journalist, Molara Wood, believes good writing, ‘is not just about stringing words together.’ For Wood, ‘it’s about the imagination, a sensibility, a way of seeing the world.’ Our questions are italicized.  What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? I read extensively in my youth, and in a sense my reading life as an adult is just playing catch up to that time in my childhood when I read purely for the joy and wonder of the story. I read
 

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