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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

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This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

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On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak

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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

The author of Border on art as social change

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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

The author of To Be A Machine on learning to write like himself

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