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Adrienne LaFrance

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Adrienne LaFrance is the editor of TheAtlantic.com. Previously a staff writer for The Atlantic, she covered technology, politics, and the media. She is a former reporter for Digital First’s Project Thunderdome in New York City, a staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab and a reporter in the Washington bureau of Honolulu Civil Beat.

"Why’s this so good?" No. 79: Joan Didion, Hemingway, and mathematically musical writing

Joan Didion finds herself counting syllables.If this is part of her brilliance, and it is, it's largely because of who she is as an observer; meticulous but detached, intimate yet…
June 18, 2013