{
  "id": 9907028,
  "title": "Helen DeWitt: ‘Publishers treat authors like outcasts until it’s time to go out and sell books’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/helen-dewitt-publishers-treat-authors-like-outcasts-until-its-time-to",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-26T04:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais English",
    "slug": "el-pais-english",
    "url": "https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-26/helen-dewitt-publishers-treat-authors-like-outcasts-until-its-time-to-go-out-and-sell-books.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The acclaimed author of ‘The Last Samurai’ recently saw her 2018 short story collection, ‘Some Trick,’ as well as her 2022 novella, ‘The English Understand Wool,’ released in Spanish as part of a single collection",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}