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Suggested Reading: A Horse at Night: On Writing (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, October 2022) by Amina Cain

The author of the novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) as well as two earlier collections of short fiction returns with her first nonfiction book, an essayistic meditation on writers and their work and an argument for the “essential unity of is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder,” writes novelist Aysegul Savas. “It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library.”

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