What if J.K. Rowling had killed off Ron Weasley, or Melville had killed of Starbuck, or Fitzgerald had killed off Daisy Buchanan?
The Awl explores characters who nearly died in their author’s rough draft, giving us an illustrated glimpse of how these “close calls” (almost) went down in history.
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