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How Do You Write a Bestseller?

Season 2 Episode 15

We spend a lot of time pontificating on the high canon of books: Your Shakespeares, your Tolstoys, your… erotic beast wars fanfiction. But today we’re craving something a little lighter, a little fluffier… novels you pick up for the sake of just having something quick-- your beach reads, your airport novels, your Books of the Month. Books that somehow manage to dominate water-cooler discussions.

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