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My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

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Leslie Jamison

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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

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As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that’s what I would do for the rest of my life.

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May 6, 2024

As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that’s what I would do for the rest of my life.

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May 6, 2024

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

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