This is a compilation of writing completed during the program. It includes the short story “The Art Teacher” and chronological excerpts from my novel-in-progress The Better Angels of My Nature Have Deserted Me, about an acerbic young woman recruited by the Stasi to infiltrate a literary scene in late 1980s East Berlin.
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