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What Writers and Editors Are Reading: January 2023

Wish you could ask your favorite writers what they’re reading? We did it for you in our January round-up of articles recommended by writers and editors we love.

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At the end of each year, as we celebrate Pocket’s “Best of” awards, we poll our most-read authors to get a glimpse at the pieces they loved the most. But January 2023 has already brought an abundance of great storytelling, and we didn’t want to wait.

So we asked some of our favorite writers—as well as editors from our go-to publications—to recommend the best pieces they’ve read this past month, both new and old. Read on for stories on the intersection between gender and age in the workplace, the literary crisis facing American children, a master luthier’s process, and more.

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