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This is Design Matters

with Debbie Millman from design observer.com.

For 13 years now, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative types

about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, IBM talks with novelist Emma Donahue about gender and race and the value of fiction.

Fiction is an amazing sort of technology for creating empathy.

Here's Debbie Millman. In Emma Donahue's dark world there is salvation. The

characters in her books face unimaginable dangers, yet their creator ultimately saves them.

No matter what the past has inflicted, the future holds a renewal.

Emma Donahue is probably best known. The future holds a renewal.

Emma Donahue is probably best known for room, the book and the movie adaptation.

She is obsessed with history and loves the mundane historical details that gorgeously color her narratives. She says if she had a time machine she transport herself to late

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