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But in the aura of this towering figure, we have a series of interrelated questions for you from the writer Francisco Goldman, whose last book, Monkey Boy, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American Book Award, and was described by Anthony Domestico for Commonweal in this way: For Goldman, the autobiographical novel isn't the last puff of a dying genre but a form through which to consider the competing moral and aesthetic demands of the real and the imagined

Ursus enrolled at an artsy charter high school where he was no longer considered an outcast for his music, his increasingly shaggy hair, or his burgeoning love for the anime series Naruto