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What you do

The novelist Tash Aw tells Chris Lehmann that he knew he had to quit his day job when he realized he’d started thinking of himself as an attorney.

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Sly wink at Terry Mac

Tayari Jones admires Wench, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who will read February 26 at Girls Write Now’s new Chapters series.

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Selassie’s end

The NYTBR praises my friend Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which imagines the last days of Ethiopia’s emperor Selassie.

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