Robert Tucker
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
Other than expressing an author's concerns and perspective and perhaps raising awareness with readers, do you think fiction and nonfiction and other performance art media addressing social issues can cause or promote significant and lasting social change?
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Of course. Witness The Tortilla Curtain. But the purpose of art is to engage, not lecture, so if you begin with such an idea you risk killing the story and alienating the reader.
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