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By Ross Douthat

Jun 16 2008, 10:55 AM ET Comment

Jennifer Schuessler mines the new NEA report on artists in the U.S. economy for this terrifying statistic:

Between 1990 and 2000, the number of writers in the United States increased by 21.5 percent, during a time when the population as a whole increased only 13.2 percent.


And that was before the blogging era began.

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