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Dan Chaon
American
Writer
Born:
1964
Different
Life
News
People
Sense
You
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
Dan Chaon
Life
Great
Perspective
Picture
Live
Gifts
Would
Would-Be
More
Empathy
Like
Another
Than
Means
Humans
Imaginative
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
Dan Chaon
Family
You
Mirror
Sense
Community
Back
Those
Telling
Gives
True
Affirm
Friends
Experiencing
Stories
Really
Your
Grounds
Wholeness
Thing
Things
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
Dan Chaon
News
You
Strange
Crime
Our
Those
Would
Anecdotes
About
Cases
Horror
True
Attention
Weird
Stuff
Headline
Contemporary
Call
Another
Always
End
Up
Very
Influenced
Certainly
Reason
Media
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
Dan Chaon
Life
Grief
People
Consequences
Guess
Ways
About
Over
Also
Course
How
Years
Loss
Curious
Process
Which
Interested
Event
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Dan Chaon
Together
Memory
Sense
Our
Ways
Kind
Fabric
Some
Construct
Self
Like
Patch
Fictions
Novel
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
Dan Chaon
Life
Wife
Kids
Been
Led
Happiest
Ever
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