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What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

Allegra Goodman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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When Cultures Collide: In Praise of Transnational Literature

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