I listened to her interview. She is obviously a highly-intelligent young person who is doing what she loves out of what seems to be sincere motives. She states clearly and maturely that she is not interested in the literary world. She isn't writing in a furious attempt to become one of the "immortals." In a way, she's braver and wiser than the thousands of young people who have paid for graduate writing degrees in hopes of entering the club of those the literary journals deign to consider worthwhile. Who stands a greater chance of wasting their lives?
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