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Podcast: The Reading Culture
Episode: Truth From Fiction: Adam Gidwitz on Plato, the Devil, and the BFG
Description: On Today's Show"The world is so complex, right? No theory that anyone has can be accurate because the only accurate model of the world is the world. There are too many complexities. ... And so what literature does is it catalogues the unique and particular truths of the world and a really great writer, a Jane Austin, Chekhov, Kate DiCamillo, will take one of those truths and reveal it to you in a narrative way that's just so deeply satisfying." - Adam GidwitzAs a young adult, Adam Gidwitz was on a hunt for the truth. He...