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Each print issue offers in-depth articles, author interviews, provocative essays, and information for collectors. We review books, TV and streaming shows, films, reference works, audiobooks, short stories, and more.
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"I once asked this literary agent what writing paid the best, and he said, 'ransom notes.'"
—Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) in Get Shorty, 1995, screenplay by Elmore Leonard and Scott Frank based on Leonard's novel.
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—Reverend Leonard Clement, The Murder at the Vicarage, 1930, by Agatha Christie
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