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Doree Shafrir has contributed to The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Slate, and The Awl, and is the co-author of Love, Mom. She is a former editor at Gawker. Her website is www.doreeshafrir.com.
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Marisha Pessl is best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Her second novel, Night Film, is due out in 2010. She is also a French horn player.
The author of the bestselling Special Topics in Calamity Physics recommends a few titles full of adventure.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's new website about living the way-too-good life could not have launched at a worse time.
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