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‘How Do You Distinguish between History and Memory?’ Emmanuel Iduma’s First Draft

December 20/January 21First DraftInterviews
Author of A Stranger’s Pose, Emmanuel Iduma, is ‘often working towards a first, near-final draft… I want any piece of my writing to be written with the intensity and personableness of addressing an imagined reader.’ Our questions are italicized.  What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Around the time I became aware of my surroundings, my father returned from graduate study at a seminary in the United States with several hundred books on church history, theology,
 

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