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How Celeste Ng writes fiery prose

Worklife with Adam Grant

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Reading and reverse engineering as a Novelist

When you engage with a book, you know, beyond just saying, I want to learn a technique. How do you read differently as a novelist? It's hard to turn off the writer part of my brain and just be a reader. In fact, I know that a book has really hooked me if I'm not thinking at all about any of the stylistic choices that the writer has made.

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