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"The great novels we get in the future are not going to be those that the public thinks it wants or those that critics demand."

From the archive, the earliest recording of "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" by Flannery O'Connor, born #OTD https://t.co/S8osgpuOFy

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Tonight, @IrinaReyn1 and @Rumaan will chart the connections between motherhood, migration, race, and identity at @nypl.

Find out more and register here: https://t.co/cUe71kfac3

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3/28 at #AWP2019, join us, @CatapultStory, @onestorymag, and @TheStoryPrize to celebrate the PEN America Best Debut Short Story anthologies, the forthcoming The Story Prize anthology, and two stellar literary journals: https://t.co/oeRry5RKZi

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