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  Fiction

  Building a novel through “unguarded conversation”

  Eavesdropping. Polite society frowns upon it. Parents raise their kids to not listen in on other people’s conversations. What if a researcher challenged these accepted norms and used the power of eavesdropping in a project to collect these bits of other people’s lives to generate new data on public opinion?

  By Ian Goodwillie     Issue 73, Fall/Winter 2018/19