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MY FAVORITE NON-FICTION BOOKS
Instead of my customary rant, I’m helping you pull together your summer reading list.
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ACTION!
One of the most difficult things for a writer to set down is an action scene.
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BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
It’s an old question made new by every generation of writers who debates it: what’s more important to prose, nuts and bolts grammar or beautiful words?
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SKELETONS AT THE FEAST
Why had no one spoken or written about it, so far as he knew?
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You asked!
What do you do when half of your family won't come to you - because they hate planes?
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THE ART OF LONG-FORM PROSE
A JUNE MASTER CLASS WITH JACQUELYN MITCHARD
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Required Reading (If You Want to Be Interesting)
Don’t be a sissy.
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Everything, Edited
Everything, Edited
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