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Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.

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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

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Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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