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On What I Learned Editing Best American Essays 2022

On What I Learned Editing Best American Essays 2022

Some thoughts on how reading thousands of essays in a year changed me

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Alexander Chee
Apr 23, 2023
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QUIS UT DEUS is the translation of the Archangel Michael’s name—Who is like God?—and I never did find out why it was on this Florentine building. But I’ve wanted to use it in a newsletter and today’s letter seems as good a time as any.

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