Made it to Colson Whitehead with minutes to spare #vwf2016
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Made it to Colson Whitehead with minutes to spare #vwf2016
Up next: Alain Mabanckou, MG Vassanji and Genevieve Von Petzinger. Yay!
Asked about writing dialogue, Emma Donoghue talked about finding a balance between accuracy and readability. She toned down Jack's voice in Room so that adults wouldn't throw the book against a wall, because "five-year-olds are so verbally dishevelled."
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(Image from the Internet of Jacob Tremblay, the actor who played Jack. Last night, Donoghue credited him with the film's success.)
