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Karen Thompson Walker

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing

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Karen Thompson Walker finds that stories about the end of the world feel believable and personally captivating. While writing her own, she discovered joy in imagining a drastically altered world where everyday items, especially food, gain deep significance and worth.

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