Check out my First-Person column on why I chose to write fiction rather than memoir on my publisher’s fun, interactive website.

I love independent bookstores. The event at Brooklyn’s own BookCourt last week was the perfect place for my first reading. It turned out that Guy, the events manager there, was an old friend of the writer’s liaison at the Kerouac Project of Orlando where I had a summer residency exactly a year ago.

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Books for a Read Hot Summer

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