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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Simon Van Booy

His debut novel, which came out today, is wonderful. I don't even hold it against him that he's younger than me. I reviewed it for The East Hampton Star.

Austin Ratner at 6:55 PM

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Austin Ratner: Austin Ratner is author of the novels In the Land of the Living and The Jump Artist, 2011 winner of the Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. It was praised as "a remarkable work" by Harper’s Magazine and featured in Publishers Weekly in 2009 as one of ten promising debuts. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere, and his short fiction has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. He attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Before turning his focus to writing he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and he is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two sons.

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Simon Van Booy

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