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Mark Medley

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Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor. Author of Live to See the Day, a national bestseller. linktr.ee/mark.medley

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Get your tickets to my Vancouver Writers Fest event with @markmedley.bsky.social where we will talk all things Library of Brothel and language of labour, love and life! Thanks for sharing this and your support. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
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66. Anakana Schofield: Library of Brothel | Vancouver Writers Fest
Embark on a literary journey like nothing before in Anakana Schofield’s Library of Brothel. In a class with Beckett, Joyce, and O’Brien (The Guardian), Schofield’s absurdist creation is a cri de coeur...
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Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This prize should only go to writers who are absolute sweethearts, like the man himself
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is an incredibly meaningful prize in honour of an incredibly wonderful friend and writer. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Writing prize to honour late Canadian thriller author Andrew Pyper
Winners will receive $20,000 and must write in the same genres that writer produced: horror, thrillers and other types of speculative fiction
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Vancouver big news! Tickets are now on sale for my Vancouver Writers Festival event Friday Oct 23 at 8pm moderated by @markmedley.bsky.social GET YER TICKETS 🚨 hot stuff! www.showpass.com/2026-festiva...
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Being featured in the Queen's Alumni Review is one of the coolest things to happen since Live to See the Day was published: www.queensu.ca/alumnireview...
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Conquering bridges too far | Queen's Alumni Review
While he was researching his book Live to See the Day, Mark Medley, Artsci’04, visited t
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"My years of experience as a rapper have somehow turned me into an attractive potential political candidate today." @cadenceweapon.bsky.social on the wave of rappers-turned- politicians, and what it says about hip hop: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: How did electing former rappers become politics as usual?
As hip-hop becomes more enmeshed in mainstream culture, rappers are becoming viable political candidates. What does that say about the state of hip-hop, and us?
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Property of Toronto by @msiddiqi.bsky.social is my favourite newsletter right now. If you miss Eye Weekly and NOW, and want to stay on top of what's happening in the city, this is for you: propertyoftoronto.substack.com/archive
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Archive - Property of Toronto
Full archive of all the posts from Property of Toronto.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A good time to mention I wrote this about my grandfather, who played for England, last month. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: My grandfather was a soccer star. In a strange way, his career prepared me for fatherhood
Being a father – just like being a Tottenham Hotspur or England fan – requires hope and a love of the game
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Opinion: On its 250th birthday, the United States has turned heel
Lessons on America from the world of professional wrestling
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A stellar work of investigative journalism: www.propublica.org/article/alic...
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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I actually used the phrase “A small riot ensued” in my book (citing him, of course) to honour his work.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just seeing this news. His Ricky Jay profile, below, features my favourite lede of all-time.
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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ICYMI. From White Hart Lane to Oshawa, Ontario. My colleague's essay on parenthood and his grandfather, an England international who played for Tottenham.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Wrote something about my grandfather and @tottenhamhotspur.com and soccer for @theglobeandmail.com.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As good a magazine story as you’ll read this year.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I have a very special essay for you all in today’s Globe and Mail about Final Journey. This was the hardest thing I ever wrote. Enormous thanks to my editor @markmedley.bsky.social for his tremendous care and patience with it. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: For my mother, and myself, a final journey home
To lose your mother is another level of loss. It’s protracted and startling in a unique way
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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
You know what, it's actually not that hard to write a book full of all your own words and ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“159 years since Confederation and not one sitting U.S. president issues a direct challenge to Canada’s existence. Now it happens more often than garbage day.” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar...
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How much does Trump hate Canada? Five charts show the depths of his animosity
The U.S. President seemed to like his northern neighbour during his first term. The second time around, things have gone seriously south
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NEW: The Giller Prize boycott has ended. The embattled literary prize confirmed that it is no longer sponsored by groups with ties to Israeli occupation and genocide. I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social. www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...
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Organizers End Giller Prize Boycott, Say Demands Have Been Met
The embattled literary organization is no longer sponsored by Scotiabank, Indigo or the Azrieli Foundation, organizers confirmed. The Grind spoke to several authors about what this means for the…
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is why AI will never win.
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review
Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“This is Jeremy, we are go for all humanity." Ivan Semeniuk reports from Cape Canaveral. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Artemis II launches with dreams of an expanded presence for humans on the moon and beyond
‘This is Jeremy, we are go for all humanity,’ Canadian Colonel Hansen declared before liftoff
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just pure fire from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...
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Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.
A message of support for my fellow writers
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while
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The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis
“There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”
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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 25/03/2026
I'm a sucker for a butterfly-effect story and this is a lovely one.
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The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Live to See the Day, at its core, is a meditation on mortality. Human life is limited by time, yet people are oddly reluctant to restrict their ambitions within its bounds. We build, restore, protect, write, teach and imagine toward futures we may never see" www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/live-to-se...
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Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be by Mark Medley
Reviewed by Chris Reed
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Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Back on the headlight beat, this time for @nymag.com, following the brightness war as it's entered Congress and become a bipartisan bellwether issue for Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Are we making progress or spinning wheels? The answer might be in NHTSA's history: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Bright Lights, Big Problem
Americans agree: Blinding headlights have become a scourge of the roads. What can be done?
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Throw them all into the sea.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 19/03/2026
Not the first and definitely won’t be the last.
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Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
VERY COOL MEDIA JOB ALERT: @theglobeandmail.com is hiring a Politics Editor to lead our Ottawa bureau. This isn't the kind of job that comes around every day... jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs
Find your next adventure
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026
Free newsletter: Why're we still doing this? Despite $1tr+ in investment, every AI company is unprofitable, LLMs have yet to provide tangible productivity benefits, and private credit-backed data center debt may be the next great financial crisis. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/
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Why Are We Still Doing This?
Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere fro...
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
John K. Samson is my favourite songwriter ever, and this is very much worth your time: hazlitt.net/longreads/la...
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Lay It Down | Hazlitt
People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.
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Anna Fitzpatrick @bananafitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I wrote about AI, enshittification, language learning as hobby vs necessity, and falling out of love with Duolingo. Art by my three-year-old niece. Thank you for reading. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: AI doesn’t make it better
It’s a familiar story now: artificial intelligence has embedded itself into yet another thing that people loved, and made it worse
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/03/2026
Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash
Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“When my three-year old niece scribbles with her broken crayons on a piece of paper … she is producing an image that is perhaps less coherent or realistic than what ChatGPT could output … but it’s still her artwork that I stick on the fridge.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: AI doesn’t make it better
It’s a familiar story now: artificial intelligence has embedded itself into yet another thing that people loved, and made it worse
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In fine company! www.cbc.ca/books/50-plu...
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50+ Canadian nonfiction titles we're excited about this spring | CBC Books
Canadian books to look forward to in spring 2026.
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Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My new op-ed for The Globe and Mail. Canada needs a realist foreign policy, but the government also needs to be coherent and transparent about it. To understand Carney's foreign policy, too many people focus on his words - look at his actions instead. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Canada’s rhetorical support for the war on Iran has an audience of one: Donald Trump
Ottawa’s most important priority remains managing relations with its only and much more powerful neighbour
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is so real. It’s about hip-hop, about capitalism, about the way that marginal cultures are erased, and about a million other things, all integrated into a cohesive thing, and it’s why I keep being a loyal DEFECTOR subscriber.
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Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
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Simon Houpt @simonhoupt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...
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U.S. ambassador to Canada requests apology for Globe and Mail column
In a letter to The Globe and Mail, Pete Hoekstra said he was ‘disappointed and outraged’ over Cathal Kelly’s column on U.S. men’s hockey team
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is striking: Trump's deranged attacks on Canada have caused a big drop in Canadian visits to states like Michigan, hurting the state's economy. There are 3 vulnerable House Republicans in Michigan. So this lunacy could help cost GOP the House. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2071...
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Backfires in Surprise Blow to GOP’s 2026 Hopes
The number of Canadians visiting the U.S. fell off a cliff in 2025. It’s pretty clear why. And this fall, the GOP should be made to pay a political price for it.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can just say things.
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Ken Hunt @kenhunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Maybe I’m being cynical, but I’m starting to question the legitimacy of the Board of Peace.
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Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
After Jason Lee opened a camera shop in Eagle Rock, I thought, man, that'd be a fun story to do. I did not know that it would eventually lead to him threatening to take me to court. For @defector.com, the whole bloody affair: defector.com/a-compliment...
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A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector
If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Rehabilitation is a core principle of criminal sentencing in Canada. Canada is poised to get rid of its prison libraries. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... by @tanyatalaga.bsky.social
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Opinion: By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book
Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 25/02/2026
Very big news: n+1 founding editor Chad Harbach’s new novel—his first since 2011’s beloved and bestselling THE ART OF FIELDING—is coming soon! THE BRIGHTNESS is out in October from @littlebrown.bsky.social. Read all about it—and preorder your copy—here: shop.nplusonemag.com/products/the...
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The Brightness, by Chad Harbach
The follow-up to n+1 founding editor Chad Harbach’s beloved and bestselling debut novel The Art of Fielding—coming this October!
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