Deborah Margolin
Contributing Reporter
Deborah Margolin
Contributing Reporter
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Deborah Margolin reflects on ‘Imagining Madoff’
Some thirty years ago, I had the startling realization — obvious in the ways the most astonishing realizations sometimes seem after they’ve been fully apprehended — that fiction is the redistribution of autobiography. In one way or another, the recombinant DNA of experience, imagination and information create in the mind of the writer a palette of colors from which to work. The canvas is silence; the paint is language.