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    The Time Is Now

    Aug 18, 2021 2 minutes

    Suggested Reading: What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August) by Alice McDermott

    The author of eight novels, three of which were named Pulitzer Prize finalists, including , which won the 1988 National Book Award, McDermott turns for the first time to nonfiction in this collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction. is filled with wisdom acquired over decades of writing and teaching.

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