Do the Dead Cat Bounce
Looking for a silver lining in the Brexit vote.
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On The Gist, author Sloane Crosley on writing characters who are smarter than you, literary witch hunts, and borrowing Spider-Man’s ethos when writing. Her novel, The Clasp, is now out in paperback.
For the Spiel, will we remember the Brexit as an argument against direct democracy?
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