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Most Writers Are Nice, First Drafts Are Terrible

Most Writers Are Nice, First Drafts Are Terrible

A Q & A with Ramona Ausubel

By Newtonville Books | June 19, 2015

Jack Livings Wrote the Best First Book of the Year

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Jim Shepard: in the Shadows of the Holocaust

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