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Journalist and author of Virgin Territory, Up For Renewal, and CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
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Another Conversation with Michelle Brafman

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By Cathy Alter Verified
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
While Michelle Brafman’s Swimming with Ghosts explored the inner workings of a Northern Virginia swim club, her new novel, Draw Near to Me— the second in what her publisher nicknamed “the swan dive series” — explores the lives of the club’s members outside of the local pool. As with the previous book, this is a story about addiction (in all its forms) and about marriages both strong and strained. There’s also a main character’s coma to consider. And children on the edge of adulthood.
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An Interview with Mary Lisa Gavenas

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By Cathy Alter Verified
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
Author Mary Lisa Gavenas already knows what you’re thinking. It was exactly what I was thinking when I first met her at this year’s Gaithersburg Book Festival, and she told me about her biography of Mary Kathlyn Wagner, better known as Mary Kay. “The lady who gave away all those pink Caddies,” I said. Big mistake.
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The strange menagerie of sculptor Joan Danziger

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By Cathy Alter Verified
| The Guam Daily Post Verified
To visit Joan Danziger in her studio is to travel to another dimension. Located in the rear of her rambling Arts and Crafts home in Northwest Washington, past a cluttered dining room and sunny kitchen, down a long, dark, wood-paneled hallway, Danziger’s studio is a Serengeti of fantastic beasts. Here, a lion and fox with human bodies ride bareback on a gigantic parrot that is suspended from the ceiling, next to the world’s largest butterfly.
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