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Clare's pleas to Cormier to continue writing novels to save her from banal young adult literature.

Cormier identifies with Clare's plight for substantial reading for young adults.

Thanks and commiseration with a teacher facing a censorship battle.

Jan Wallace requests advice on how to talk to a Catholic parent about Fade's literary value.

Thanks for a personal photograph related to the conceit of Fade.

Richardson recounts a student's journal entries on The Chocolate War as he worked on a paper on censorship of Cormier's work. The article includes portions of Paul's letter to Cormier and Cormier's complete response. Richardson closes on the…

Cormier writes about how different emotional revelations drove him to write The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, and Fade and how crucial emotion is to the success of his writing.

Gary, a 13-year-old seventh-grader, shares his feelings about Fade, Paul's powers, and his relief that he is not Catholic.

Cormier describes his use of similes and metaphors and the effect fictionalization has on his real-life sources of inspiration.