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Four authors.  Three are fantastic.  Who’s in? Who’s out? Is it pre-ordained? Is it all an innocent misunderstanding?   Will literary feuds take root?  Only one way to witness history being made.  1 p.m. at Books of Wonder, NYC. Saturday 12 November 2016. 

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Thought piece here thanks to the excellent CBC diversity blog. Special bonus content: my 3rd grade class photo with my fly open & shoes untied. 

Fighting Homogenization

Contributed by Ned Rust, Author

They want me to try to write for what?

They want a graduate of the 99%, non-minority, public schools of last-century Briarcliff Manor (the B.M. we call it, much like residents of the O.C., only without a validating TV show) to write for a diversity blog?

Roaring Brook has just published a book I’ve written called Patrick Griffin’s Last Breakfast on Earth,about a kid who undertakes a kitchen-sink chemistry experiment and ends up in a parallel world dominated by a hyper-modern efficiency state that finds human cultural heritages to be inconvenient and even anathema.

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Patrick Griffin’s first hardcover on Earth.   #PatrickGriffin #BunBun #RoaringBrookPress

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(For those of you with Twitter skills.)

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BunBun as conceived by the great Jonathan Lopes. 

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You know there's ice on the road.

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Watch the windows. (The clings are coming.)

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Love this. Matt Chalwell artist. 

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I did not commission this. (Any appropriate rights possibly reserved by J. Cote.) #frankenauthor

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Thank you, Justin and Sarah.

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I hear a lot of people with first names for last names like Nike. Uncool, my Oregonian friends. Even if you are only selling it in Ireland. 

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ca. 1985. From my high school paper. Different world. 

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Patrick Griffin’s first galley on Earth

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cover reveal . . . t-minus 304 days