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    A Year in Reading: Erica Berry

    by Erica Berry Dec 18, 2023 2 minutes

    Whenever I write, I ask myself: what sort of things do I want to make my reader feel? Writers do not have full sway, but like hosts at a dinner party, we can set the mood. We light the candles, we decide whether we want to offer comfort or—I think of the friend who served Jello made “the old-fashioned way,” with a boiled cow hoof—to provoke. The reader, like the

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