This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Jane Smiley, a Los Angeles native, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...

Don’t move to New York or Los Angeles to write, author Jane Smiley said during a writing Q&A at the 30th annual Brady Author’s Symposium. “You spend too much time commuting. … Those worlds are ...

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