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The New Yorker’s Writers">Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

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Rita Bullwinkel on Writing Sports Narratives

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The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”

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Knight Rider">Christian Tebordo on Nabokov, the Liberation of Bad Reviews, and Knight Rider

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