The Inevitable Substack is a twice-monthly newsletter about the art and craft of writing. We'll be doing close readings of fiction and nonfiction by me and by others...and hopefully, some of yours as well!

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Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

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