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“Being married to another writer, another novelist, is a fascinating thing,” admits Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Knievel Days. “The most fundamental truth about it is this: my wife Peyton Marshall understands what I go through – what it feels like to be a practitioner of our art. When my characters aren’t coming alive – when the scenes are flat on the page – I don’t have to explain anything, don’t have to describe the way that failure coils in my chest, a physical misery, a tight band of frustration that I cannot dislodge.”

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