Auraist: picking the best-written books

Auraist: picking the best-written books

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Auraist: picking the best-written books
Auraist: picking the best-written books
'Having a bad sentence in front of her makes her “ill” '

'Having a bad sentence in front of her makes her “ill” '

Plus our next pick from the recent releases in literary fiction

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Auraist went live on Substack a year ago. At that point we’d no clear idea how our focus on prose style would go down, as we’d no similar projects to measure ourselves against. The hope was that we’d…

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Laura van den Berg
I'm the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise. Born in Florida, live in New York, currently at work on a new novel & training for my next fight (I'm also a boxer!).
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