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The essay collection was noted as a work Kiese revised after buying back its rights, and it was praised for its brutal honesty and revision process.
Looking back on How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and his novel, Long Division, Kiese realized there were parts of the books he wanted to change.
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Episode: Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your...
The essay collection was noted as a work Kiese revised after buying back its rights, and it was praised for its brutal honesty and revision process.
Looking back on How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and his novel, Long Division, Kiese realized there were parts of the books he wanted to change.
You have done that brilliantly and impressively with How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
You bought back the rights to that book and you revised basically the whole text.