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One of my favorite things I saw on Substack this week was

Alexander Chee
’s talk with
Jami Attenberg
, encouraging 1,000 words of summer of writers to stick with their projects for the long haul by cracking themselves up with their own audacity. As a reader, I love to be shocked by what and who a writer has dared to imagine, so this sounds like great advice to me.

I’m in the mood to escape into some audacious female behavior this month. Here are five books on my radar with messy female protagonists. 

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