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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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