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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
“While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality—and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others”
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The Autocrat of English Usage
“Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century.”
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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem
“Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it.”
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George Saunders on Writing
“The short story, I’m learning, can do anything.”
