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Working It Out on the Page

Writers explore exercise and their relationship to it: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Reading and writing are exercise for the mind, but sometimes authors choose to train their attention on more literal forms of fitness. In her new book, , Danielle Friedman explores . Working out is a source of power and strength, qualities women weren’t supposed to have very much of until recently, but also of shame and control. This dichotomy is exemplified in Jazzercise, . Missett conceived of the

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