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    Donna Tartt & Allan Gurganus on Writing, Inspiration & the South

    A Q&A with authors Donna Tartt and Allan Gurganus at the 92nd Street Y.

    Recently, Donna Tartt and Allan Gurganus visited the 92nd Street Y as part of an author event, which included a question and answer segment with the audience. The pair discussed their habit of taking a decade to write a book, their inspirations for their novels and what growing up in the south offers writers, amongst other subjects. These were the choice bits of the Q&A:

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