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I’m writing from under a stack of blankets ... But I double down. —Sadie Fiction, 1962 “It was dusk — winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung ...

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For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

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Erika Swyler’s (The Book of Speculation) fourth book is a timely science fiction novel set in Bulwark, a walled city that’s governed by AI. A woman named Enita, one of Bulwark’s upper-class ...