This is withering and correct.

Making A Great Fantasy Map Is An Art, And Ross Douthat Sucks At It | Defector

Making A Great Fantasy Map Is An Art, And Ross Douthat Sucks At It | Defector

Ross Douthat has a fantasy novel for young-adult readers: The Falcon’s Children, the first in what reportedly will be a trilogy from the respectability-conservatism peddler, who left his sinecure as a columnist at the New York Times earlier this year so that he could lower television’s aggregate charisma level by 944 percent as a correspondent…

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