28 June 2017
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Will Wilkinson (Niskanen Center, Vox, The Fly Bottle) and Matthew Quirk (matthewquirk.com, The Directive)
- Leaving DC to write fiction . 5:29
- Matthew’s new novel, “The Directive” . 6:50
- How would you pull a heist at the Federal Reserve? . 6:35
- Have literary writers forgotten how to tell stories? . 5:29
- A novelist learns to pick locks . 5:50
- Political corruption, fiction vs. reality . 8:43
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