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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5.0

You know how stories usually begin with a good day, and then—because that’s how stories work—something bad has to happen? You need conflict, a low point, a climax before the end. That’s the usual formula of how a “good” story unfolds.

But what if you’ve been living in a hellhole the whole time? What if nothing good ever really happens? How do you tell a story then—without sounding like the same bleak routine over and over again?

You write about that