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Emily Brout

Emily Brout, singer, was prematurely born in New York City’s Beth Israel Hospital, alongside her two siblings who were taking up an awful amount of space in the womb. She is mostly known as the lead singer of the rock band The Indecent and is presently the front person of her most recent project, Ludlow […]

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Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra is an American writer. He was born in Washington DC in 1984. Marra has lived and studied in Eastern Europe. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He is the winner of a Whiting […]

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David Means

David Means is an American writer. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1961. Means is considered one of the most respected writers of short stories in America today. He received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and has been a part-time member of the English department at Vassar College since 2001. Means is the […]

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Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson was one of America’s most prominent writers. He was born in Munich in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila, and the suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. by a father who worked for the CIA. He studied with Raymond Carver while earning his MFA from the University of Iowa. Johnson is the author […]

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Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, acclaimed American fiction writer and translator, was born in Northampton in 1947. Davis is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall of 2003, she received one of 25 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards. In granting the award, the MacArthur Foundation praised Davis’s work for showing “how language itself can […]

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Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff, an American author, was born in 1945 in Alabama. His parents’ divorce separated him from his father and older brother, writer Jeffery Wolff, for many years during which he and his mother traveled through various states in the US while struggling financially. After being forced to drop out of high school, he joined the […]

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