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I grew up in Baltimore, in a tight-knit family of German and Czech immigrants. I got an education in the D.C. punk scene and Riot Grrrl, and I earned a bachelor’s degree at Towson State in the Baltimore suburbs, where I studied Virginia Woolf, Black feminism, art history and French.

In the first part of my career, I did journalism in NYC for both Wall Street Journal publications and an alt weekly. I copy-chiefed for almost every magazine that ever existed, and I loved laboring over page proofs. I covered music regularly for Time Out New York and Brooklyn Rail for about a decade... a joy.

I’ve read all 72 Nero Wolfe books. McNally Jackson Books on Prince and Housing Works on Crosby are holy places. NYC is home, and I also spent a decade in ...more

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What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation

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The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us

by John J. Lennon (Goodreads Author)

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On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting: Oral Histories, Strategies, and Conflicts

by Benjamin Heim Shepard

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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)

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