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Writer Ben Fountain On Our ‘Third Existential Crisis’
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English - March 06, 2020 23:04 - 50 minutes - 2.93 KB - ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsArts History business culture interview comedy health news politics entrepreneurship leadership science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As an essayist and novelist, writer Ben Fountain was an unlikely choice to pen a monthly column about the 2016 presidential election for the British newspaper, The Guardian . He’d never worked as a journalist, and although he’s passionate about U.S. politics, he had never written about a presidential election.