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A few years ago, a journalist asked bestselling author Jessica Knoll whether she’d prefer critical or commercial success. Without hesitation, she chose commercial. Critical recognition for her books, like her blockbuster debut Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister, seemed out of reach anyway. “I was caught up in an old, limiting mindset for a long time — that things I wrote weren’t important enough for recognition by certain people at places like TheNew York Times Book Review, and so I should just be grateful that readers liked what I did,” Knoll tells Bustle. But then the interviewer pushed her: Didn’t she believe she could have both?