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December 7, 2015

Authors Off-Book: Ronald A. Reis »

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Ron ReisPolymath Ronald A. Reis, author of the forthcoming Henry Ford for Kids, likes to keep busy. The prolific educator has taught middle schoolers, high schoolers, and community college students, and he’s written books about architecture and infrastructure, governmental bodies, electrical engineerin



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November 9, 2015

Authors Off-Book: Amy McCullough »

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Amy McCullough, Box Wine Sailors

Like many people, Amy McCullough and her “mate for life” Jimmie Buchanan craved an escape from the daily grind. Amy’s new memoir The Box Wine Sailors: Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea details how they made their dream come true—the couple bought a shabby 27-foot sailboat, qui…

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October 27, 2015

Authors Off-Book: Aidan Levy »

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Aidan Levy has written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, JazzTimes, and the Daily Forward, among others. He plays baritone saxophone in the Stan Rubin Orchestra and is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He holds an MFA fro



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September 28, 2015

Authors Off-Book: Cory Franklin »

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Cook County ICUCory Franklin, MD, spent 25 years as the director of intensive care at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is an editorial board contributor to the Chicago Tribune and the author of Chicago Flashbulbs. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times, the N



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September 16, 2015

Authors Off-Book: Mick Wall »

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TattsAuthor, journalist, and producer Mick Wall has worked inside the music industry for over 35 years. He's written biographies of Axl Rose, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Black Sabbath—and Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of the Doors, released this month in the US (last year in the UK), just



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August 18, 2015

Authors Off–Book: Tom Acitelli »

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Authors spend years, even decades, researching, writing, and editing their books. And then once the book is published, they make the rounds talking about their writing process and habits. What else makes authors

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