Indeed, as Greece's politics turned increasingly republican and populist at the end of the 20th century, interest waned in heroes, royal tombs and literary sources such as Homer's epic poems.

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Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.

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Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

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