Auraist: picking the best-written books

Auraist: picking the best-written books

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Kia Corthron: playwright, writer on The Wire, and one of the best US debut novelists of the century

Kia Corthron: playwright, writer on The Wire, and one of the best US debut novelists of the century

Corthron's answers to our questions on prose style; plus the opening chapter of The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter

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