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Well, I think they are also two of the best books I’ve written. If I had five favorite books those would be two of them. I don’t think there was any larger point of view in the choice of those two. I think it just happened that ''Armies of the Night'' was a pretty good book, and it came along in a year when let’s say the Pulitzer Committee was sympathetic to that sort of book. ''The Executioner’s Song'', in its period, probably, well . . . that sentence finishes itself. | Well, I think they are also two of the best books I’ve written. If I had five favorite books those would be two of them. I don’t think there was any larger point of view in the choice of those two. I think it just happened that ''Armies of the Night'' was a pretty good book, and it came along in a year when let’s say the Pulitzer Committee was sympathetic to that sort of book. ''The Executioner’s Song'', in its period, probably, well . . . that sentence finishes itself. | ||
'''In Joseph Elroy’s writing class at Columbia, you were talking about Why Are We in Vietnam? And you said that if there are any forces in the cosmos that “step in and give a writer a helping hand, I got it right there.” Do you find there are such moments of inspiration?''' | '''In Joseph Elroy’s writing class at Columbia, you were talking about ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' And you said that if there are any forces in the cosmos that “step in and give a writer a helping hand, I got it right there.” Do you find there are such moments of inspiration?''' | ||
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