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Aimee Bender
“Visitations”
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Aimee Bender
| January 5, 2026
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“I felt a kinship with the stones.”
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Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan
“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
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Aimee Bender
| April 1, 2022
A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro
Surrendering to Narrative in
The Piano
and
Klara and the Sun
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| August 30, 2021
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