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It’s time to stop talking about writing and write. The best-selling author of “Prep” and “Rodham” offers a plan. By Curtis Sittenfeld Though some people have knocked out an entire short story in a ...

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of discovering a new-to-you writer, and then discovering that they’ve penned several other titles you haven’t yet read! Imagine this. You make your way to your ...

As editor of her high school newspaper in Batavia, Ill.—a small town about an hour west of Chicago—Samira Ahmed got used to asking tough questions. The paper was where she first thought deeply about ...

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