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Does it Take a Twisted Mind to Write Twisted Stories? | Better In Person

Published 5 August 2026Duration: 45m 0s
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Harlan Coben doesn’t think so. The mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what he learned from his college friend David Foster Wallace. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person, you can watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts.

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