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David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, which The New York Times calls “a hip and quick-paced literary thriller [about] what motivates radicalism” that “excels at jet-black social satire in a style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis.” His debut book, the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, earned him a “Best New Writers of 2006″ honor from the literacy association, PEN American Center.  David is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and web sites, including New York, The New York Times, The New York Post, and The Rumpus.  He has also played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house.  He lives in New York City.

Aryn Kyle is the author of the newly published short story collection Boys and Girls Like You and Me.  Her debut novel, The God of Animals, was an international bestseller and the winner of an American Library Association’s Alex Award, a PNBA Award, an MPIBA Award, and others.  The God of Animals was named by Amazon as the Number One Fiction Debut of 2007, and was chosen as a Book Sense Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title.  Aryn’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories 2007, Best New American Voices 2005, and elsewhere.  She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine Award in fiction.  She lives in New York City.

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