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Novelist and journalist\u00a0Rebecca Clarren\u00a0(KICKDOWN, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) reads from her novel, a finalist for the PEN\/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Summer host Amanda Uhle and Rebecca Clarren talk about writing with a social cause in mind, journalistically reporting a novel, and the American West. 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