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• On The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Updated July 2009)

  July 20, 2009

  • Okay. So I get asked this question about every other day, and it seems like I should update this page because my response before the movie came out is very different from how I feel after the movie came out. For a full history of Benjamin Button and Max Tivoli, you can look below. The executive summary is that the Fitzgerald story has nothing to do with the movie, the movie has nothing to do with ...
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• Reality as a Guide

  December 3, 2007

  • More than novels, when I’m sitting down trying to think of a short story, I’ll sometimes think, "What is the anecdote that I tell at a dinner party that always works?" Because that could be a story; I already have a structure for it. I’ll just change it however I see fit, as if I really were able, at the dinner party, to make the story whatever I wanted. If I were a true liar, which I’m ...
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