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'''Will Blythe''' is a magazine writer and book author living in New York City. He is the editor of Byliner.com, a former literary editor at ''Esquire'' magazine, and a contributing editor for Harper's and Mirabella.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blythe |first=Will |title=Author: Will Blythe |url=https://www.ourstate.com/author/willblythe/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=Our State |language=en-US}}</ref> He writes for many other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Elle, and the Oxford American.<ref>The Authors. [http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/80/1466/index.html ''Will Blythe''] 2008.</ref>
== Early life and education == Blythe was born in 1957 in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
== Career == His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories for 1988 and adapted into a 1995 short film starring David Morse and Treat Williams. Blythe's 2006 book, ''To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever'', follows the author through a season rooting for his beloved University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team and examining his hatred of the school's rival, Duke University (see Carolina-Duke rivalry). The ''New York Times'' describes Blythe thus: "... he writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully. {...} Fans of college basketball will wish that all sportswriters possessed Blythe's ability to describe a game, to translate its tension and render its action."<ref>Foer, Franklin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/books/review/02foer.html Tobacco Road Rage.] The ''New York Times'', April 2, 2006.</ref> Blythe is also the editor of ''Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction'', published in 1999, and co-editor of ''Lust, Violence, Sin, Magic: Sixty Years of Esquire Fiction'', published in 1993. He writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review.
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