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- ↑ Danny Funt, "Alana Massey’s journey to being taken seriously", Columbia Journalism Review , January 22, 2016
- ↑ Anna Helen Peterson, "Tales From the Personal Essay Industrial Complex", The New York Times Book Review , February 23, 2017
