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“I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.”

Quote by Molly Antopol

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Molly Antopol is an American fiction writer born in 1979. Her works are known for their delicate emotions and profound insights into themes such as identity, culture, and social change. more

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