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Thursday, April 19, 2012

1957 ESSAY BY HECTOR LASSITER ON FICTION WRITING FOUND

Jen Forbus of Jen's Book Thoughts Fame unearths a circa-1957 Hector Lassiter essay on fiction writing, murder and the matter of villains from a long defunct writing magazine of yore...

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