A crazed fan kidnaps author Harkim, arguing that winning an award means the world will stop listening.
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A polished literary hour where ambition, authorship, and celebrity keep changing hands.
Selected Shorts turns reading and writing into a compact drama of appetite, vanity, and consequence. Meg Wolitzer opens by folding betrayal, obsession, and scandal into a kind of intrigue more often associated with a binge watch, then bookends the hour with Billy Collins poems…
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For when you want fiction about the people who make fiction.
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