jason roberts to come to one of my classes at stanford years ago and when he was working on his first book which was about a man who circumnavigated the globe twice and he was completely blind right. his own and but he had all historical fact. and i was kind of dreading when it came in. he was going to read part of it. but i thought it was going to be really dry. that was my sense of just it just i didn't know what it was to be. and then he read it and it was so vivid and so full of life. and it's a little bit of a magic trick. but and i think of that sort of what the nonfiction about that magic trick aspect and i think the two books that sort of change the world in some ways, you know, for literary nonfiction were in cold blood and executioner's song. and then if you've in cold blood, it's like one of the great novels and it's just stunning and and it has to be written by a novelist mean that's like to a certain extent, these terrific fiction writers they bring to bear on nonfiction. i mean, we reap the benefits. capote is constant curiosity, a character who moved me the most in the

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