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Excerpts of this book appeared, in different form, in The White Review, in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and on Post45 Contemporaries. Thanks to those editors.

Selections from White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics. Copyright © 2008 Hélène Cixous and Susan Sellers. Individual interviews, publishers, and contributors. Reprinted with permission of Columbia University Press.

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