![]() So it's not actually a piece of fiction - this article. SIMON: Yeah - which you've done in an article in The New Yorker. MALLON: And to some extent, I found imagining it as fiction, maybe, consoling or at least an escape from it. ![]() SIMON: The 2016 campaign - do you find it believable? His books include "Henry And Clara," "Dewey Defeats Truman," Fellow Travelers," "Watergate" and "Finale." They often feature some of the bystanders to historical events. In our last pre-election talk about politics with someone who's not in politics, we're going to turn to a novelist, Thomas Mallon. Would an editor tell a novelist, take out that part where the secretary of state's emails are found on the hard drive of a guy being investigated for sex texts? Too farfetched. ![]() ![]() Would a novelist concoct a story in which a candidate begins a presidential debate with a boast about the size of his manhood, defame war heroes and recommend a porn video? The 2016 presidential campaign has taxed the patience of the American people and often our imaginations. ![]()
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