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Barbara Epler is the director of New York publisher New Directions. She tells us about the most riotous and transporting recently published books – featuring plague sores, a sunburned boy, golden weasels, a burning ship, a cat with three legs, and a pillow that transforms into a white caterpillar. Along the way, she provides us with insight – from her catbird seat of 40 years in an independent house – into the world of fiction publishing today.