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Novelist and essayist Barbara Abercrombie offers a collection of wide-ranging anecdotes, lessons, and prompts for beginning and veteran writers. A Year of Writing Dangerously devotes sections to writerly topics such as “failing better,” mentorship, and keeping faith, and pairs each lesson with a quotation from a famous writer.