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The Good Soldier. Perhaps more so nowadays, I’ll hear someone say they don’t want to read or watch something sad. What do you think about that?

Nunez: In the book, these two women watch this wonderful movie, Make Way for Tomorrow, from 1937—the director is Leo McCarey—and it’s unbelievably sad. Orson Welles called it the saddest movie ever made. And they’ve watched it. They’re weeping. And it’s not that they regret having watched it because a good story, beautifully told, no matter how sad, lifts you up. So there are different kinds of sad. But if something is sad and meaningful and beautiful and moving in a certain way, I think it’s uplifting. I’ve always felt that way.