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Q&A with Shelf Life author Enrique Salmón

Get to know SHELF LIFE author Enrique Salmón…

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Joni Murphy

Get to know SHELF LIFE author Joni Murphy…

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Anita Felicelli

Get to know SHELF LIFE author Anita Felicelli…

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Q&A with Fathoms author Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms, is from Perth, Australia. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, and Best Australian Essays, among other publications. Her writing focuses on our connection to animals in a …

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Nick Pyenson

Nick Pyenson, author of Spying on Whales, is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. His work has taken him …

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Kate Doughty

Kate Doughty, author of The Follower, is a graduate of the University of Virginia. She lives and works in Washington, D.C., and her debut novel is a spine-tingling YA thriller based …

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Q&A with Shelf Life author Michelle Nijhuis

Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, is a journalist and project editor at The Atlantic, where she edits for the Planet section. …

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Q&A with Chef Belinda

Get to know the author of Just Peachy...

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Q&A with Cary Holladay

Get to know the author of Brides in the Sky…

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Q&A with Laura Lee Gulledge

Get to know the author-illustrator of The Dark Matter of Mona Starr…

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Q&A with Rick Hodges

Get to know the author of To Follow Elephants…

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Q&A with Curdella Forbes

Get to know the author of A Tall History of Sugar…

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