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How Jean Hanff Korelitz Learned to Create Tension and Suspense on the Page

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 10, 2022

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EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

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