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Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction
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Kristen Arnett
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Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
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Tom Borders Reflects on Lessons Learned in the World of Bookselling
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"