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  "id": 16867736,
  "title": "Worth the Risk: On Daring to Choose the Writing Life",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/worth-the-risk-on-daring-to-choose-the-writing-life",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-28T07:00:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/worth-the-risk-on-daring-to-choose-the-writing-life/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When I was child, my parents told me to “be smart” at least once a day. Depending on the context, these words stood in for a range of different things: a goodbye when I ran out the door for school,",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}