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Politics and journalism knocked literature sky high, and the novel—it was entitled “One Story’s Good Till Another Is Told”—was laid by and quite forgotten.
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Watterson laments how politics and journalism overshadowed his literary pursuits, leading to the neglect of his novel.
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