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Samuel Chapman

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I've been telling stories for as long as I had a mind to think with. I was always that child who couldn't watch a movie without coming up with an idea for the sequel, or who wanted the games we played in my cousin's backyard to have long, complex plots. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I'd hide in the grassy flood ditches at the edge of my cul-de-sac and read for hours.

It was in this unlikely library that I read the end of *The Amber Spyglass*, and decided I couldn't accept it. What Philip Pullman did to Lyra and Will was so awful and wonderful at once that I had to write another book just to right that wrong. Stephen King says in *On Writing* that fantasy became a genre so authors could bring Frodo and Sam back from the Grey Havens; I think th
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5 Times the Book “How Migration Really Works” Blew My Mind

Don’t be alarmed by the title! I know that these days, when someone says they’ve “learned the truth about immigration,” they’re usually about to tell you that George Soros is hiring legions of Venezuelan hitmen to sauté our pure Aryan babies. I swear that’s not what happened to me.

What did happen was that I read a book called How Migration Really Works by Hein de Haas, a Dutch academic who’s been

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