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Saturday, 31 March 2012

Jonah Keri

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Jonah Keri is the author of The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team From Worst to First, about the Tampa Bay Rays.

From his 2011 Q & A with David Leonhardt:
Q. A decade ago, Major League Baseball was still pretty hostile to basic economic thinking, like the idea that teams should use data to find undervalued players. But the success of the low-budget Oakland A’
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Friday, 30 March 2012

Owen Laukkanen

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Owen Laukkanen is the author of The Professionals.  ("Four friends, recent college graduates, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise-quick, efficient, low risk-works like a charm. Until they kidnap the wrong man.")

From his Q & A with The Rap Sheet's J. Kingston Pierce:J. Kingston
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Eowyn Ivey

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Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win) LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. Her mother named her after a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

She works at the independent bookstore Fireside Books where she plays matchmaker between readers and books. The Snow Child is her debut novel. Her short fiction appears in the anthology Cold
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Elaine Pagels

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Elaine Pagels earned a B.A. in history and an M.A. in classical studies at Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is the author of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent; The Origin of Satan; and The Gnostic Gospels, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. Her new book is Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation.

From her Q &
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

John Yow

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John Yow, a freelance writer based in Acworth, Georgia, is author of The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds and The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal: The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore.

From a Q & A at his publisher's website:
Q: The Armchair Birder has returned! How is this book different from its predecessor, The Armchair Birder?

A: The big
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