In the prose context, this means starting an article or a book with a question and then waiting to answer it until the end.

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The novelist, critic, and essayist has a new book out called Reading Like a Writer, and joins us to answer the question that haunts every frustrated genius: can creative writing be taught?

NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

The answer is in a new book, Export Now, that I co-authored with Frank Lavin, former U.S. Department of Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade.

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He thinks private sector responsibility is the answer and his prescription is described in a new book, Conscious Capitalism, that he coauthored.

FORBES: Is 'Conscious Capitalism' an Antidote to Income Inequality?

Most of the subjects here are lonesome in some way, travelling (or hurtling) towards some kind of companionship or answer or feeling, while the book's packaging resembles a leather-bound travel journal.

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The author, Anne Fisher, talks about a new book, Unrelenting Innovation, by Gerard Trellis, that purports to answer just this question.

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When he wanted to find out if Aristotle was wrong to say that a small body would fall at a different speed from a large body, he didn't look the answer up in an old book about falling objects.

BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

When my daughter Elizabeth asked me what the difference was between a deciduous and conifer tree, because she was having trouble memorizing the answer from the science book, I took her outside to see it for herself.

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But we leave Mr Paxton's full answer as a final nudge to readers, if one is needed, to learn from this excellent book.

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