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Join NOW!For NYT Magazine, Wils S. Hylton tackles the myth of Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling nonfiction author who never really leaves her house: She is cut off not only from basic tools of reporting, like going places and seeing things, but also from all the promotional machinery of modern book selling. Because of [chronic fatigue syndrome], she […]
...moreConsidering “the booming market for young adult novels,” Alexandra Alter writes for the New York Times about how non-fiction writers are re-working their titles “to make them palatable for younger readers.”
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I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live above. We had dinner a few months ago, where I picked her brain about the writing life, and we both overate pasta. It struck me […]
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