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Janelle Brown

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Janelle Brown is the author of the novels THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE and ALL WE EVER WANTED IS EVERYTHING, which was a New York Times bestseller and published in a dozen countries around the world. An essayist and journalist, her writing appears regularly in Vogue, The New York Times, Elle, Wired, Self, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. Previously, she spent five years as a senior writer at Salon, covering a diverse range of subjects -- from Internet culture to the war on drugs, pop culture to style, public policy issues and the digital music movement-- and began her career as a staff writer at Wired, working on seminal Web sites like HotWired and Wired News during the heydey of the dotcom boom. In the 1990’s, she was also...more


The paperback of This Is Where We Live will arrive in bookstores in just a few weeks. You may recall that the hardback cover was dark and ominous: Black, with dying tulips in a shattering vase.


Well, here's is the new paperback cover, and there's not a dot of black to be seen:


This is Where.trade



Familiar? Yes. Those who read "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" may find the cover eerily similar, in fact. (There is...

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All We Ever Wanted Was Ever...
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More of Janelle's books…
“Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it?”
Janelle Brown, This Is Where We Live: A Novel

“Real life is just a never-ending string of compromises that you make in order to survive”
Janelle Brown, This Is Where We Live: A Novel

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It's a summer Wednesday. You're halfway through the week. Deadlines are piling up; emails remain unanswered. The weekend is too far away on either sid...more



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