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Lisa Peet
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Eclectic. I have a little fetish for trolling for used books from stores, library sales, church bazaars, and street vendors. Special sweet spot for art books, correspondence collections, and NYC/wunderkammer odd shelf books.

About Me
I'm a library journalist, essayist, reviewer, visual artist, baker, lefty (politically, not handed), New Yorker, owner of a number of beasts.

I'm also senior editor of Bloom, a literary site about writers (and some other artists) who first published after age 40.

I still miss Readerville.com.
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Bronx, NY
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The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King
Plain Pleasures (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jane Bowles
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
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The New Yorkers: A Novel by Cathleen Schine
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