Book World inaugurated the "Writing Life" series almost exactly 10 years ago with an essay by the American master stylist Stanley Elkin. Of the more than 100 writers we have featured in the interim, ...

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MARRAKECH, Morocco – It’s morning under the Atlas Mountains and publishing legend Alexandra Pringle is taking a savage blue pencil to a very nice paragraph. At least I thought it was a very nice ...