If you’re not familiar with the Totally Hip video series by Ron Charles, the Washington Post’s fiction critic, his most recent installment is the perfect introduction. In it, New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian makes a self-deprecating cameo to prove Charles’s contention that

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Here’s a link to the entire Totally Hip series. Beware the cheesy commercial.