“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers,” said Steven Spielberg, the man who first revealed his instinct for a good story with 1971’s Duel. So who better to tell our readers the best reads ever than writers who have made their own transition from that “generation of readers” into the storytelling realm? We asked eig


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