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BY OWEN MATTHEWS ’22
Forty-One False Starts: Essays by Artists and WritersBy Janet MalcolmFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2013, 320 pages, $12.22 paperback
How Fiction Worksby James WoodPicador 2009, 288 pages, $14.00 softcover
That title sounds just a little off. Who ever thinks of fiction “working”? Washing machines and computers work (sometimes), but fiction? Why would…