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Barbara Kingsolver on DEMON COPPERHEAD

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How Being a Freelance Journalist Helped Me Hone My Novelistic Skills

The author has written about how being a freelance journalist really helped her hone her novelistic skills. "I want you to know that you're a person," she writes in the book's acknowledgements. In an exclusive edition of Un sheltered, which is also a novel I love, you talk about questioning yourself and how you possibly write about a crisis when you're in the middle of it.

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