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		prewett on May 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing books is not really a good idea We won't know for a hundred years how many of the books that will be published in 2021 will be notable enough in 2121 to be on the 2021_in_literature wikipedia page.

nearbuy on May 11, 2021 [–]

I didn't mean to imply that we should compare it to the 2021_in_literature Wikipedia page.

There are many thousands of successful authors living today. I'm wondering, how many were there in 1921?

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