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Cuban Writer M.M. Pascal-Paul: Not for the Feeble-Minded

By Kirk Nielsen

Miami New Times | November 14, 2005

The rising literary star says the blurring of reality and fiction, actually, the elimination of fact, is the fundamental issue of our day. Or did she even say that?

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Tags: fair, Miami, international, book, Dictation, M.M. Pascal-Paul

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