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Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

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Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

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On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

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The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

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"I learned how to tell a story from the first and greatest storyteller of all."

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