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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Featured Author: Sloane Crosley

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Sloane Crosley

About the Author
Sloane Crosley’s essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Observer, the Village Voice, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Salon, Black Book, Radar, Maxim, and The Believer. She is also the Associate Director of Publicity at Vintage/Anchor Books in New York.

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Featured Author : Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares

About the Author
Ann Brashares is the author of the New York Times-bestselling young adult novels The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants, and Forever in Blue, and the New York Times–bestselling adult novel The Last Summer (of You and Me).

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Monday, May 03, 2010

Featured Author : Jean Kwok

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Jean Kwok

About the Author
Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn as a child, where she worked with her family in a sweatshop. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in Fiction at Columbia.

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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Featured Author : Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott

About the Author

Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as several novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in Northern California.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

Featured Author : Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley

About the Author

Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved writers. His mysteries appear regularly on the New York Times bestseller list, and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City.

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Featured Author : Chang-rae Lee

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Chang-rae Lee

About the Author

Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, and Aloft. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Featured Author : Daniel H. Pink

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Daniel H. Pink

About the Author

Daniel H. Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, a long-running New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller that has been translated into twenty languages. Besides writing two other bestselling books, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation, Pink has contributed to The New York TimesHarvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace. Pink lives in WashingtonDC, with his family.  He invites readers to e-mail him at dhp@danpink.com. 

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Featured Author : Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby

About the Author

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award for 1999 as well as the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award, he lives in North London.

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Featured Author : Joe Pernice

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Joe Pernice

About the Author

Joe Pernice is a critically acclaimed musician, producer, and writer. He has written and recorded prolifically with the Scud Mountain Boys and his band, The Pernice Brothers, who have released six albums. In addition to touring extensively for more than a decade, Joe has written a collection of poetry, Two Blind Pigeons, and a lauded novella, Meat Is Murder, part of the 33 1/3 series from Continuum Books. He co-owns an indie music label, Ashmont Records, and his music has appeared on the television shows Gilmore Girls and Six Feet Under and in the movie Fever Pitch. A Massachusetts native, Pernice lives in Toronto.

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Featured Author : Maile Meloy

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Maile Meloy

About the Author

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love, and the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter. Meloy’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and other publications. She has been shortlisted for the UK’s Orange Prize, and has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Los Angeles.

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