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The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing (Tin House Books, July 2017) by Margot Livesey

Each of the ten essays in is rooted in close readings of authors such as Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Tom Stoppard, and Virginia Woolf, from whom Livesey, the best-selling author of eight novels, draws invaluable lessons about

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