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By Charles Arrowsmith | June 6, 2016

Jon Ronson: In Search of the Genuinely New

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Charles Arrowsmith on the author of So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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The Defiant Magic of Molly Crabapple

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By Charles Arrowsmith | March 3, 2016

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