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It Is Always Ourselves*

When writers write

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Anthony Caplan
Sep 14, 2025
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This is the writer William Morrow, who is the author of Alias Tomorrow.

(Comes out in November. Pre-order here.)

"Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing" Guy de Maupassant

The phone buzzed on his desk. He hoped it…

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