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Marion Winik

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As seen in: The Weekly Reader, WYPR-FM (Baltimore, MD), MSN, MSN Ireland, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, The Independent (UK), The Washington Post, USA Today, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Aol and
Covers:  books, audiobooks, authors
Doesn't Cover: I do not have an interview show and a huge percentage of the pitches I get are about that!
Essayist, book reviewer, cook, dachshund worshipper. Host of Weekly Reader podcast. Author of FIRST COMES LOVE, THE BIG BOOK OF THE DEAD.

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Marion Winik is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead (Counterpoint, 2019) and First Comes Love (Pantheon, 1996). Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011.

A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly …

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By Lizz Schumer , McKenzie Jean-Philippe , Claire Martin, Marion Winik , Louis Aermelino
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Disclosure Day Can humans handle learning that aliens exist? This blockbuster spectacle is a fun way to find out MOVIE Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg’s latest love letter to aliens, melds the grown-up emotional heft of Close Encounters of the Third Kind with the family-friendly nature of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The film radiates with his infectious enthusiasm, both for the subject matter—what if we aren’t alone in the universe?—and for filmmaking itself.
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East Meadow's Camille Perri talk about 'Social Animals'

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By Marion Winik 
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Calling all dog lovers! East Meadow native Camille Perri's funny, insightful new novel, "Social Animals" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30), revolves around a three-way friendship among women who meet at a dog park.
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By Lizz Schumer , Louisa Ermelino , Kim Hubbard, Caroline Leavitt, Marion Winik 
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Masters of the Universe Nicholas Galitzine leads this bright and action-packed blast of ’80s nostalgia MOVIE 1987’s Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, was a box office bomb best remembered for its star’s bulging muscles and revealing costumes.
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