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Inspired by Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Conner, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin, Jon C. Stott, Herman Melville, Rick Bowers, Rohinton Mistry, Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond E. Jones, Carol Shields, Alice Walker, James Joyce, Alice Munro

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