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  <name><![CDATA[Laren Stover]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A classically trained artist with literary DNA, Laren Stover writes fiction and nonfiction.
Laren's first style book The Bombshell Manual of Style (Hyperion), was pivotal in exploding Bombshell consciousness into a popular genre of its own when it was published in 2001. Laren has deconstructed the incandescence of Bohemians in Bohemian Manifesto, A Field Guide to Living on the Edge (Bulfinch, 2004), a book that captured the attention of a wide variety of readers from Joel Grey to Tom Robbins to Richard E. Grant. Her novel, Pluto, Animal Lover (HarperCollins), was a finalist for Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and she was named finalist by Anne Tyler for The Loft Award. 
Laren has done readings/interviews on NPR with Leonard Lopate, The Early Show with Bryant Gumbal and Lisa Birnbach, CNN with Rachel Wells, The Caroline Rhea Show, WOR-TV, Oxygen and more, and her work widely reviewed.  Laren has received fellowships to Yaddo and Hawthornden Castle funded by Drue Heintz. Her awards include the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant for fiction and the Dana Award. She has written for The New York Observer, The New York Times, Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, Bomb, German Vogue and mrbellersneighborhood.com.  Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines, her dramatic works performed at venues throughout the city including Naked Angels Theatre and EST, and her libretto, Appalachian Liebesleider, premiered at Carnegie Hall to a standing ovation. 
Nick Tosches writes: “Reading Laren Stover is an engagement of the senses…a seduction of the senses—transporting you to the magical and softly illuminating place whence she writes.”

]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Caspar David Friedrich, Truman Capote, Anita Loos, Jack Palance, Joel Grey, Jack Black!!!   William Faulker, J.K. Huysmans, Joseph Cornell, Garth Williams, Ancient Egypt, Pharoah Sanders and once upon a time, Anais Nin.]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Baltimore</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Bombshell Manual of Style]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ruben Toledo]]></name>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Pluto, Animal Lover]]></title>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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