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Lucy Burdette is the author of nine mysteries, some of them written as Roberta Isleib.Her latest book is An Appetite For Murder, the first in the Key West food critic mystery series.Earlier this month I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:Ever since I signed a contract with NAL/Penguin for three books in the Key West food critic mystery series, I've had a marvelous excuse to immerse myself

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Philip Gooden writes both fiction and non-fiction. His historical novels include the Nick Revill series, set in Elizabethan London, and a Victorian sequence, the most recent title for which is The Ely Testament. He also writes books on language, including Who’s Whose? and Faux Pas?, which won the English Speaking Union award for the best English Language book of 2006. He was chairman of the Crime

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Elizabeth Popp Berman is a sociologist at the University at Albany, SUNY.Her first book, Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, recently won the Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award.Earlier this month I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:I have more time to read fiction in the summer, when I’m not teaching. And I’m the kind

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Rosamund Bartlett's books include Wagner and Russia and the acclaimed Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. An authority on Russian cultural history, she has also achieved renown as a translator of Chekhov.Her latest book is Tolstoy: A Russian Life.A few weeks ago I asked Bartlett what she was reading. Her reply:I’m particularly pleased to be asked this question now, as I’m currently abroad and having a

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John Burdett practiced law for 14 years in London and Hong Kong until he was able to retire to write full time. He has lived in France, Spain, Hong Kong and the U.K. and now commutes between Bangkok and Southwest France. His new book is Vulture Peak, the fifth and latest novel in his series featuring Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Earlier this month I asked Burdett what he was

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Matt Bondurant’s second novel The Wettest County in the World was a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best 50 Books of the Year. His first novel The Third Translation (Hyperion 2005) was an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages worldwide. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer

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Jesse Browner is the author of the novels Conglomeros (Random House, 1992), Turnaway (Random House, 1996), The Uncertain Hour (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Everything Happens Today (Europa Editions, 2011).His The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality in Western Civilization was published by Bloomsbury in 2003.Earlier this month I asked Browner what he was reading. His

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Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row and patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP, and his true-crime articles have appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader's Digest and Penthouse.His latest novel is The Burning Edge.Not so long ago I asked Mofina what he was reading. His

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Randy Rawls is a retired US Army Officer and Department of Defense civilian. He is the author of Thorn on Roses, the Ace Edwards, Dallas PI series as well as a number of short stories. A North Carolina native who called Texas his home for a number of years, Randy Rawls lives in South Florida.Recently I asked him what he was reading. His reply:I have to open with the fact that I am an avid reader

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Beth Fantaskey is the author of Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, Jekel Loves Hyde, and the newly released Jessica Rules the Dark Side. Her reply to my recent query about what she's been reading: Right now, I am under the gun to finish my doctoral dissertation, which is dictating everything that I read. (If I don’t finish by May, I’ve wasted seven years of schooling!) Anyway, my

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Paul M. Barrett is an assistant managing editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. His books include American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America, and the newly released Glock: The Rise of America's Gun.Earlier this month I asked him what he was reading. His reply:I've been on a David Foster Wallace kick lately, catching up with my wife, the

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Dominique A. Tobbell is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine and the Graduate Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is also the oral historian for the University of Minnesota’s Academic Health Center History Project. Tobbell's new book is Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold

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John Lescroart's many novels include Damage, Treasure Hunt, The Betrayal, The Suspect, The Hunt Club, The Motive, The Second Chair, The First Law, The Oath, The Hearing, Nothing But the Truth, and the newly released The Hunter. Earlier this month I asked him what he was reading.  His reply: I'm reading two books at the moment, going on three, which is more or less typical. My daughter gave me a

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Katie Ward lives in Suffolk, England. She has worked in the public and voluntary sectors, including at a women’s refuge center, in the office of a Member of Parliament, and in various community-based projects.Scribner will release Girl Reading, Ward's debut novel, in the US on February 7, 2012.Recently I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:It’s January 2012: This is a selection of recent

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Benjamin Buchholz served as a Civil Affairs Officer in Safwan, Iraq, from 2005 to 2006. His nonfiction book Private Soldiers was published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2007. His new novel is One Hundred and One Nights. A couple of weeks ago I asked him what he was reading.  His reply: Right now I'm ingesting huge doses of original source material in Arabic -- the tales of the

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Katherine Govier is the author of nine novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel The Printmaker's Daughter is about the daughter of the famous Japanese printmaker, Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003.Govier's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the United

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Sabrina Benulis graduated with a master’s in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University. She currently resides in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband, Mike, and her spoiled cockatiel, Caesar.Last year's Archon is her debut novel.Recently I asked Benulis what she was reading. Her reply:I'm ecstatic when I actually have the time to read, so unfortunately my book list

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Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He teaches in the Environmental Studies program and is Adjunct faculty in the Geography Department. In addition, Boykoff is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental

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Patrick Lee's first novel, The Breach, hit the world at the beginning of 2010. It was followed by a sequel, Ghost Country, and the final volume of the trilogy, Deep Sky, was released last month. The series tells the story of Travis Chase, a man who finds himself caught up in the chain of events surrounding the world's most violently kept secret.Recently I asked Lee what he was reading. His

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Gina Robinson's books include Spy Candy, Spy Games, and The Spy Who Left Me.Recently I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:When I'm in the middle of a project, as I am now, I like to read out of the genre I write in. Getting lost in very different voices and stories seems to refresh and renew my creativity. Lately I've been on a young adult binge. And as I have a teenage daughter who's

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Nick Drake's critically acclaimed novel Nefertiti was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award; his Tutankhamun was a Publishers Weekly top 100 books selection. He has published two award-winning collections of poetry, and his play Success was performed at the National Theatre in London, where he is a literary associate. Drake's screenplays include the

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John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books including In Search of the Multiverse, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, and Science: A History. He trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is now Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.His new book is Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique.Earlier this

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Eric Anderson is an American sociologist at the University of Winchester known for his research on sport, masculinities, sexualities and homophobia. He shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sports, as well as a growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive. Anderson also researches matters related to men’s

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J.J. Murphy, an award-winning health care writer in Pennsylvania, has also been a long-time Dorothy Parker fan.She started writing The Algonquin Round Table Mysteries after the birth of twin daughters, as an escape from toddler television.Earlier this month I asked Murphy what she was reading. Her reply:I love Tina Fey. I love the show 30 Rock. So, I was over the moon when her book Bossypants

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NPR critic Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988); Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage1992, Da Capo 1999); Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992); Fever: How Rock'N'Roll Transformed Gender In America (St. Martin's/Picador 2005).His latest book is Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music.Some time back I asked Riley what he was reading. His reply:I'm

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Kameron Hurley currently hacks out a living as a marketing and advertising writer in Ohio. Her personal and professional exploits have taken her all around the world. She spent much of her roaring 20′s traveling, pretending to learn how to box, and trying not to die spectacularly. Along the way, she justified her nomadic lifestyle by picking up degrees in history from the University of

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Laura DiSilverio spent twenty years as an Air Force intelligence officer, serving as a squadron commander, with the National Reconnaissance Office, and at a fighter wing, before retiring to parent and write full time.Her new novel is Swift Edge.Not so long ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:I’m currently reading Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos, which seems appropriate since

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Deborah Baker is the author of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as A Blue Hand; The Beats in India, and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. Earlier this month I asked her what she was reading. Her reply: I’ve been reading Mary McCarthy’s trilogy of book length essays on the Vietnam War. I

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Lia Habel was born in Jamestown, NY, and has lived there the majority of her life. Her first book, Dearly, Departed, is a sweeping tale of zombie-living romance set in a cyber-Victorian/steampunk future. When Dearly, Departed sold, she was swimming in debt incurred from her studies and years of un- and underemployment, with only a few dollars to her name. Habel enjoys attending anachronistic and

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Michael Broyles is Professor of Music at Florida State University and former Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University. His book, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, written with Denise Von Glahn, won the Irving Lowens Prize in 2007.His new book is Beethoven in America.Recently I asked Broyles what he was reading. His

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Derek Haas is the author of the bestselling novel The Silver Bear. He also co-wrote the screenplays for 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie. His forthcoming film, The Double, starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace, is directed by his screenwriting partner Michael Brandt and will be released in 2011.Haas's

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Ed Kovacs has worked for many years as a private security contractor deploying to challenging locations worldwide. He is a member of AFIO, Association for Intelligence Officers, the International Thriller Writers organization, and the Mystery Writers of America.His new novel is Storm Damage.Last month I asked Kovacs what he was reading. His reply:I am trying to read The Kite Runner. I

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Larry Karp grew up in Paterson, NJ and New York City. He practiced perinatal medicine (high-risk pregnancy care) and wrote general nonfiction books and articles for 25 years, then, in 1995, he left medical work to begin a second career, writing mystery novels. The backgrounds and settings of Karp's mysteries reflect many of his interests, including musical antiques, medical-ethical

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Brian Clegg is a British popular science writer. His books have included The God Effect, Before the Big Bang, and Inflight Science.His latest title is How to Build a Time Machine.Recently I asked Clegg what he was reading. His reply:My reading involves a lot of popular science for research and reviews, and most recently I’ve enjoyed The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. Cox has

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Leighton Gage has spent many years in Brazil where he maintains a home. He also lives in Miami and spends part of the year in the Netherlands.His new Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation is A Vine in the Blood.A few weeks ago I asked Gage what he was reading. His reply:The civilized little country of Iceland has a population of slightly more than 300,000 people and a homicide rate akin to

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Brian Ruckley's books include the fantasy trilogy The Godless World, which consists of the books Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes.His latest novel is The Edinburgh Dead.Last month I asked Ruckley what he was reading. His reply:I'm a bad reader. I've become constitutionally incapable of reading a single book, from start to finish, without getting distracted by some appealing new

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Mignon F. Ballard grew up in a small town in Georgia, and now lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina.Her new novel is Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause.Ballard's reply to my recent query about what she was reading:Although I’m not currently reading this author, I do come back to him from time to time – especially when my spirits need a boost. I’m speaking of everybody’s favorite Yorkshire veterinarian

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Tom Lowe's Sean O'Brien mystery/thriller series includes A False Dawn, The 24th Letter, and The Butterfly Forest.Recently I asked Lowe what he was reading. His reply:I'm currently reading Feast Day of Fools, by James Lee Burke. Burke is a lyrical storyteller, with a good sense of the human psychological condition and how close evil can live under the skin of some people.The book I finally got

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Matt Rees is an award-winning crime novelist and foreign correspondent. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Omar Yussef crime series, including The Collaborator of Bethlehem. He is also the author of Cain’s Field, a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society.His latest novel is Mozart's Last Aria.Rees's reply to my recent query about what he was reading:The

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Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose short stories have appeared in Asimov’s (where he won the 2010 Reader's Award for short story), Strange Horizons, and Science Fiction and Fantasy: Best of the Year, and others. His debut novel, Soft Apocalypse, was published by Night Shade Books in 2011, and his second novel, Hitchers, will be out in February, 2012. A New Yorker

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Marie Lu is the art director at Online Alchemy, a video game company, and also owns the business and brand Fuzz Academy.Her new novel is Legend.A couple of weeks ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:I just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Now, this is a book that has been recommended to me by no less than a dozen people on various occasions, but I kept putting it off

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Donna Gephart's first novel, As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her new novel, How to Survive Middle School, received starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal. Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, about a girl determined to get on the TV quiz show Jeopardy!, is due out in March 2012.Last month I asked her

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Edgar®-nominee Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites. His novels include four entries in the Hector Lassiter series.His new standalone novel is El Gavilan.Not so long ago I asked McDonald what he was reading. His reply:Each year seems to exact more

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Wendy Pearlman is Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University.A few weeks ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:My new book, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement examines 90 years in the history of the Palestinian struggle and asks these questions: Why do some self-determination movements

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Kenneth Gross is professor of English at the University of Rochester. His books include Shakespeare’s Noise and Shylock Is Shakespeare.His new book is Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life.Earlier this month I asked Gross what he was reading. His reply:A lot of the reading has been rereading. Some of it for pleasure, some to think about a class I’m teaching on Shakespeare, and also a class on

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Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. Her scholarship includes Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women, and Cyberdiscourse and the newly released Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography.Recently I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:Currently, I'm reading Steven Shaviro's new book, Post-Cinematic Affect that has so far been an interesting

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As Riley Adams, Elizabeth Spann Craig writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley. Under her own name she writes the Southern Quilting mysteries (2012) for Penguin/NAL and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink. She blogs daily at Mystery Writing is Murder, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2010 and 2011.Earlier this month I asked

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Charles Lemert is Senior Fellow at Yale's Center for Comparative Research. His recent books include The Structural Lie: Small Clues to Globalization (Paradigm, 2011) as well as Why Niebuhr Matters (Yale University Press, 2011).His reply to my recent query about what he was reading:Stephen Greenblatt's recent book, The Swerve, led me back to Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things". Greenblatt

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David Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.He has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. His books include Why Birds Sing, on making music with birds, and Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales. Other books include Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record, Hand’s End, and Always the

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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a

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Nancy Jensen, who received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, has published stories and essays in numerous literary journals, including The Louisville Review, Other Voices, and Northwest Review. She was awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and teaches English at Eastern Kentucky

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Gary Corby is a novelist and former systems programmer at Microsoft. He lives in Australia with his wife and two daughters.He is the author of The Pericles Commission and the newly released The Ionia Sanction.Recently I asked Corby what he was reading. His reply:I re-read books that I love, quite often. Also I tend to have several books going at once. Here's what's currently on the boil:The

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John Keahey is a veteran journalist who worked for wire services and newspapers for 35 years and 15 years in the corporate public-relations world. He has history and marketing degrees from the University of Utah and spends as much time as possible in Italy and Sicily. He lives in Salt Lake City with book designer Connie Disney.His new book is Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and

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Ellen Hart, “a top novelist in the cultishly popular gay mystery genre” (Entertainment Weekly), is also a Lambda and Minnesota Book Award winner.Her latest novel is The Lost Women of Lost Lake, the 19th mystery featuring Jane Lawless.Not so long ago I asked Hart what she was reading. Her reply:I’m hoping my editor doesn’t see this. I’m working on a deadline and should be writing, but reading

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Stephen Beachy is the author of the novels The Whistling Song and Distortion, as well as the twinned novellas Some Phantom/No Time Flat. His writing has appeared in BOMB, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Review, Best Gay American Fiction, New York magazine and elsewhere. Raised by an ex-Amish father in Iowa, he now lives in California and teaches at the University of San

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Robert L. Trivers is a Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. He won the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences in 2007 for his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict, and cooperation.His new book is The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life.Late last month I asked Trivers what he was reading. His reply.I have not been reading

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Tyler McMahon received his MFA in fiction from Boise State University. His stories have appeared in Threepenny Review, Sycamore Review, and Surfer’s Journal, among others, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is a professor of fiction at Hawaii Pacific University.How the Mistakes Were Made is McMahon's debut novel.His reply to my recent query about what he was reading:Lately, I’ve

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Tricia Fields’s debut novel, The Territory, won the 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery. She is currently working on her second book in the series. She lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband and two daughters. Fields was born in Hawaii, but has spent most of her life in small town Indiana where her husband is a state trooper.I recently asked her what she was reading.

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Phillip DePoy is the author of a number of mysteries, including the Edgar Award winning play Easy. He has published short fiction, poetry, and criticism in Story, The Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, and Yankee, among other magazines. As a folklorist, Depoy has worked with Joseph Campbell and John Burrison. He is currently the director of the theatre program at Clayton State

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D.E. Meredith read English at Cambridge, then ran the press office and the land mines campaign for the Red Cross, travelling extensively to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Rwanda during the conflicts. She worked as a consultant on media relations for Greenpeace and other worthy causes before embarking on "The Hatton and Roumande Mysteries" series for St Martin's Press (Devoured, October 2010, The

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Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer, and motivational trainer. Many of his works--Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores, “Time Travelers Never Die,” Moonfall, “Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt), “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,” Chindi, Omega, and Polaris, "Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker--have been

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Sara Grant was born and raised in Washington, Indiana, a small town in the Midwestern United States. She graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, with degrees in journalism and psychology, and later she earned a master’s degree in creative and life writing Goldsmiths College, University of London.Grant is senior commissioning editor for Working Partners, a London-based

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A New Yorker by birth, Rebecca Coleman grew up in the close suburbs of Washington, D.C., in an academic family. A year spent in Germany, at the age of eight, would later provide the basis for the protagonist's background in The Kingdom of Childhood. She first learned about the Waldorf School movement at age 14 and quickly developed a fascination with its culture and philosophies. After

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David O. Stewart's books include the highly acclaimed The Summer of 1787, the bestselling account of the writing of the Constitution, and Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. He has practiced law in Washington, D.C., for more than a quarter of a century, defending accused criminals and challenging government actions as unconstitutional.

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David Anthony Durham received the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science Fiction for Acacia and The Other Lands (the first two volumes of the Acacia trilogy).The Sacred Band, the concluding volume of the trilogy, was released earlier this month.Durham's reply to my recent query about what he has been reading:The novel on my night table at the moment is Arms of Nemesis, by

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C. K. Kelly Martin's books include I Know It's Over, One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, and My Beating Teenage Heart.A few weeks ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:I’m very happy to have the chance to talk about what I’ve been reading lately because for the last several months I’ve been weaving in and out of Australian author John Marsden’s outstanding young

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Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon—the best university magazine in America, according to Newsweek, and “the best spiritual magazine in the country,” according to Annie Dillard.He is the author of five collections of essays, two nonfiction books (The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine, about the “muddles & musics of

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Caroline B. Cooney is the author of more than 75 suspense, mystery, and romance novels for teenagers which have sold over 15,000,000 copies and are published in several languages. The Face on the Milk Carton has sold over 3,000,000 copies and was made into a television movie. Among her recent titles, Cooney is proudest of Diamonds in the Shadow, which won a Christopher Award, A Friend at

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Geoff Hyatt's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Midwestern Gothic, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Temenos, Night Terrors: An Anthology of Horror, Rock & Roll is Dead: Dark Tales Inspired by Music, and elsewhere. He has been a staff writer, editorial assistant, bookseller, activist, liquor store clerk, heavy metal guitarist, factory worker, and always a gentleman.Hyatt's most recent novel is Birch

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Todd Ritter is the author of Bad Moon, his second mystery featuring small-town police chief Kat Campbell. Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, he now lives in suburban New Jersey.Recently I asked him what he was reading. His reply:When it comes to books, I’m not usually a double-dipper. I wait until I finish one to start another. Yet there are two books out right now that I so desperately

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Mike Mullin’s first job was scraping the gum off the undersides of desks at his high school. From there, things went steadily downhill. He almost got fired by the owner of a bookstore due to his poor taste in earrings. He worked at a place that showed slides of poopy diapers during lunch (it did cut down on the cafeteria budget). The hazing process at the next company included eating live

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Dean Crawford worked as a graphic designer before he left the industry to pursue his lifelong dream of writing full-time. An aviation and motorcycle enthusiast, he lives with his family in Surrey, England.Covenant is his first novel.Recently I asked Crawford what he was reading. His reply:Right now I’m reading The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross. It’s a great story concerning a young professional

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Lisa Black’s fourth book Defensive Wounds was released by Harper Collins last month. Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean battles a serial killer operating at an attorney’s convention. Black is a full time latent print examiner and CSI for a police department in Florida.Some time ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:Right now I’m reading Next by Michael Crichton, published in 2006. I

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J.T. Ellison is the international award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Taylor Jackson novels, multiple short stories and has been published in over twenty countries.Where All the Dead Lie, the latest Taylor Jackson book, is now available.Ellison reply to my recent query about what she has been reading:I’ve just started The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas

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Doug Magee has been a photojournalist, screenplay writer, children's book author, death penalty activist, film producer and director, war protestor, college football player, amateur musician, and the basis of the Aidan Quinn character in Meryl Streep's Music of the Heart.His new novel is Darkness All Around.Earlier this month I asked Magee what he was reading. His reply:I'm gearing up to write

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Stephen Wetta is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He received his Bachelor's Degree from VCU and his Ph. D. at New York University. He is currently an English professor at Hunter College. If Jack’s in Love is his first novel.Recently I asked Wetta what he was reading. His reply:The Judges of the Secret Court is a novel by David Stackton, first published in 1961 and reissued this year by New York

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Lauren McLaughlin grew up in the small town of Wenham, Massachusetts. After college and a brief stint in graduate school, she spent ten “unglamorous” years writing and producing movies before abandoning her screen ambitions to write fiction full-time. Though she fondly remembers much of her time in Massachusetts—the marina, the beach, various teenage escapades—she cannot, for the life of her,

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Alma Katsu is the author of The Taker, a gothic tale of desire, obsession and the need within us all for redemption.The Taker has been described as "an epic supernatural love story" and compared to The Historian," Interview with the Vampire, and Twilight even though it doesn't have one vampire in it.A few weeks ago I asked Katsu what she was reading. Her reply:I’m in the middle of revisions for

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Jacques Strauss is a South African freelance digital producer and consultant and the author of the debut novel, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V..Recently I asked him what he was reading. His reply:I’ve just finished re-reading Boyhood, Youth and Disgrace by JM Coetzee. I’m a big fan of Coetzee. I was recently asked by someone if there was any point in writing books about South Africa and

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David Handler has written eight novels featuring the mismatched crime-fighting duo of Mitch Berger and Des Mitry. His first, The Cold Blue Blood, was a Dilys Award finalist and BookSense Top Ten pick. He is also the author of eight novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, neurotic basset hound, Lulu, including the Edgar- and American Mystery Award--

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Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a regular "Economic View" columnist for the New York Times, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have been translated into 22 languages, include The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip Cook), The Economic Naturalist, Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, and

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Jean-Vincent Blanchard is Associate Professor of French Studies at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Born in Canada and raised in Europe, he earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997. He is a specialist on pre-revolutionary France, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century, and has published on a broad range of subjects in politics, history, religion, philosophy, and the

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A native of North Carolina, Mark de Castrique writes mysteries primarily set in the Appalachian mountains. He is an award-winning film and video producer whose work has been broadcast on PBS, HBO, and network-affiliate stations as well as the author of the Sam Blackman mystery series, the Buryin’ Barry series, and two mysteries for young adults. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.His new

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Ann Hite has published more than sixty stories in publications such as: Literary House Review Anthology, Espresso Fiction, Skyline Magazine, Plum Biscuit, Moonwort Review, Foliate Oak, and Spillway Review.Her new novel is Ghost On Black Mountain.Her response to my query about what she was reading:I'm always reading something because I'm a book junkie. But this month’s reads are as follows:

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Ned Beauman was born in London and currently lives in New York. His debut novel Boxer, Beetle was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize upon its initial UK release last year, and has recently been praised by the New York Times as "funny, raw and stylish."Recently I asked him what he was reading. His reply:As early groundwork for a future project, I've been

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After a long career in business, Tom MacDonald changed careers and now works in the non-profit sector. He received his BA from Stonehill College, MBA from Boston College, Carroll School of Management and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine.His new novel is The Charlestown Connection.Last month I asked the author what he was reading. His reply:Heart of Darkness, by

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Lena Coakley was born in Milford, Connecticut and grew up on Long Island. In high school, Creative Writing was the only course she ever failed (nothing was ever good enough to hand in!), but, undeterred, she went on to study writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Toronto, Canada.Witchlanders is her debut novel.A few weeks ago I asked Coakley what she was reading. Her reply:I’m reading a

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Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.His new book is The Ethical Project.Last month I asked him what he was reading. His reply:At present I’m reading three books (at different times of day). I tend to begin with the final volume of Thomas Mann’s diaries (Tagebücher). All ten volumes are a wonderful mixture of the mundane and the unusual. Mann

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Nora McFarland is the author of the Lilly Hawkins Mysteries from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. The latest book in the series, Hot, Shot, and Bothered, was released last month.A few weeks ago I asked the author what she was reading. Her reply:On a recent flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles I had the pleasure of reading The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz. It’s the best book I’ve come across in a long

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Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He has published eight collections of poetry, including Middle Earth (FSG, 2004) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has received many awards for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Award.His most recent

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Dave Zeltserman was born in Boston and educated at the University of Colorado. A former software engineer, he is the author of nine horror and crime novels including Outsourced and Pariah.His new novel is A Killer's Essence.Zeltserman's reply to my recent query about what he has been reading:I just finished Richard Stark's The Seventh. This is a classic crime novel where a heist gets pulled

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Valerie Frankel is the author of Thin Is the New Happy and such chick lit favorites as The Accidental Virgin, The Girlfriend Curse and Hex and the Single Girl. The former articles editor at Mademoiselle, Frankel has contributed to the New York Times, O, Glamour, Allure, Self, Good Housekeeping, among many other publications.Her new memoir is It's Hard Not to Hate You.Recently I asked Frankel what

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Jason Webster was born in California and was brought up in England and Germany. After spells in Italy and Egypt, he moved to Spain in 1993, where he was inspired to write a number of highly acclaimed nonfiction titles. He lives near Valencia with his wife, the flamenco dancer, Salud, and their son.His new novel is Or the Bull Kills You.A few weeks ago I asked Webster what he was

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William Giraldi teaches at Boston University and is Senior Fiction Editor for AGNI. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Georgia Review, Bookforum, Southern Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, Poets & Writers, Yale Review, The American Scholar, Antioch Review, TriQuarterly, and Salmagundi. His essay on amateur bodybuilding, “Freaky Beasts,” received a

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Caitlin Horrocks lives in Michigan by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland, and the Czech Republic. She is the author of the story collection, This Is Not Your City. Her stories and essays appear in The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere. Her work has won awards including the

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Daniel Polansky is the author of Low Town.According to Publishers Weekly, "Polansky hits all the right notes in his intelligent first novel, a blend of dystopian fantasy and hard-boiled crime....Sharp, noir-tinged dialogue and astute insights into class struggle mark Polansky as a writer with a future."Polansky's reply to my recent query about what he was reading:I just finished reading The Old

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Dani Kollin is an advertising copywriter currently living in Los Angeles, California. He has also worked as a creative director and copywriter in the print, broadcast and new media fields. In addition to being happily married and the proud father of three children, Kollin is also an avid endurance cyclist and surfer. He and his brother Eytan are co-authors of The Unincorporated Man, The

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The first book in Kelli Stanley's Miranda Corbie series, City of Dragons, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also named one of the 2010 Top Ten Mystery Thrillers by Oline Cogdill and one of the Top Ten Best Fiction by Bay Area Authors by the San Francisco Chronicle.Her new novel City of Secrets.A few weeks ago I asked Stanley what she was reading. Her reply: I have

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E. Paul Zehr is a professor of neuroscience and kinesiology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero and the newly released Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine.Earlier this month I asked him what he was reading. His reply:I just finished reading Into That Darkness by Steven Price. It’s a novel in the

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Christine Cody is the author of the new postapocalyptic supernatural Western Bloodlands series. The first book, Bloodlands, launched July 26, followed by Blood Rules on August 30 and In Blood We Trust September 27.Not so long ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:This summer I was on a mission: to catch up with the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin.I had watched the

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