“Hi, God? I can’t think of anything more humiliating than getting sued for libel by someone no one’s ever heard of over a book no one actually bought, let alone read. Can You? Wait… don’t answer that.”
At The Awl, Misha Angrist writes about the five stages of grief following the publication of one’s first book.
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