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Cynthia Ozick Reads Steven Millhauser

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Readership in Young Writers

The emperor has no clothes, and he is selfish, foolish, a self-idolator. What does that mean for a young writer who's driven to write a masterpiece as all young writers are? No young writer believes he or she is striving to be a mediocrity.

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