Blaise Santi is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Dramatic Writing. He's had experience writing not only for screen and stage, but also for sketch and late-night. His ...

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There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

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