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Portrait: Noelle McCarthy interviews Talia Marshall
Flawed, self-dramatising, consistently loveable, beset by powerful forces, you can’t not want to spend time with Talia Marshall. I think of her as the best writer in New Zealand at sentence level. I took to writing 10/10 next to some of the sentences …