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Patrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel, The White Van, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. His latest novel is called Clean Hands.
Recommended Reading
The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters
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Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street, and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Strand Critics Award. She lives in Los Angeles. Her latest novel is called These Women.
Recommended Books
Make Them Cry by Smith Henderson and John Marc Smith
The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand
Take Me Apart by Sarah Sligar
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Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. Her second and most recent book is called The Great Pretender.
Recommended Reading:
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun-Wang
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
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Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. Her latest collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, received the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.
Recommended Reading:
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden
Where Reason Ends by Yiyun Li
Demon Camp by Jennifer Percy
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Amber Sparks is the author of The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
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Teddy Wayne is the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, and McSweeney's. His latest novel is called Apartment.
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