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Robin Merle is the author of the best-selling novel, "A Dangerous Friendship" and the award-winning non-fiction book, "Involuntary Exit: A Woman’s Guide to Thriving After Being Fired." A Dangerous Friendship won the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction and the 20th Anniversary National Indie Excellence Award for Contemporary Novel.

She has published short fiction in The Chouteau Review, South Carolina Review, Kalliope, and Real Fiction. She holds a master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where she earned a fellowship.

Off the page, as a nonprofit executive, she has raised over a half-billion dollars in philanthropic support to improve individuals’ quality of life and access to opportunities. A longtime N
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Involuntary Exit: A Woman's...

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Is Working Hard Good?

That sounds like a naïve question with a predictable answer.  How could it be otherwise? 

There’s a cliché that goes around about women believing that if they work hard enough, they’ll get promoted. I’m sure that belief isn’t limited to women. Clichés are truths. While we may think we’re savvy enough to debunk that myth, we’re still working 24/7 to do more and get ahead. When we’re told we’re no lo

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Becoming Sarah is a masterful portrait of a woman whose entire being is primed for survival. Sarah Vogel's story begins in Auschwitz, as a newborn hidden and nurtured by other women in the camp. Liberated at age three, she's displaced to another camp ...more
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I received an Advanced Reader's Copy of Living with Strangers and loved it. In her memoir, Robin Rosenbluth creates the world of Songa, Kenya with such vivid texture that you can feel the red dust of the earth on your skin. The warmth of the friends ...more
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In Fixer Chau, Han Ong's writing is brilliant with some of the most original insights and satire about humanity that I've read in a long time. His depiction of the class divide in NYC between the privileged wealthy and the impoverished, scrambling so ...more
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