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Dawn Powell‘s A Time To Be Born is chock-a-block with wonderfully acerbic observations: on life, love, politics–you know, the usual stuff–but for my money, most memorably, in these brief passages, on journalism, writers, and writing itself: Every morning Miss Bemel turned in a complete digest of the dinner conversations or chance comments of important officialsContinue reading “Dawn Powell on ‘Writers of Consequence’”