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Like many people, I’ve long marveled at Garrison Keillor’s ability to spin a tale on A Prairie Home Companion . The more I read about him, the more it sounded like he had an uncanny ability to regularly make up his entertaining stories at...
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For me, the ultimate compliment to a book is when I let it not only retain a spot on an increasingly crowded bookshelf, but resolve to read it in its entirety a second time. That is the case with Tom Rachman ’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists...
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers and contributors. At The Writer offices in suburban Milwaukee, it’s been a quiet holiday week, with half the staff away on vacations. My colleague Sarah Lange and I have been steering the ship in their absence...
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