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Katherine Sharpe

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Katherine Sharpe was born in Arlington, Virginia. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she studied anthropology and English. She has a master’s degree in literature from Cornell University. Previously she worked as the editor of Seed magazine’s ScienceBlogs.com, and the online editor of ReadyMade. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Washington Post Magazine, GOOD, Seed, ReadyMade, The Village Voice, Scientific American Mind, and a number of other publications. She keeps a blog at Psychology Today, and is a regular contributor to Wired Design. Coming of Age on Zoloft is her first book.

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Average rating: 3.50 · 224 ratings · 54 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors

	Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	400 Words, Issue 1: Autobiographies 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking the Line Between God and Satan 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	N+1 Number Eight: Recessional by n+1, Philip Connors, Nicholas Dames 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

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Poorly edited, to the extent of having misused words and typos. But plenty of larger-scale problems too. As another reviewer noted, the chapter on an operation to repair fistulas didn't really explain what the operation does; a chapter on forceps lik...more
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