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The.Ink

What you weren’t supposed to see

As MAN IN THE MIRROR arrives, I want to open the workshop door for the Ink community and share some of what usually disappears along the way. I don’t do this often, so come in before I regret it

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Anand Giridharadas
Aug 17, 2026
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Glimpses of the reporting for MAN IN THE MIRROR

A book is a stone polished until every trace of roughness is gone. But it starts rough.

That roughness is something you generally want to hide from the world. In the kinds of books I write, I pride myself on dissolving the labor into the artistry of how I tell the story. I don’t need you to know how I finagl…

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