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Lies Writers Tell Themselves Before 10 A.M. Bingo

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About the Author

Susan Perabo is the author of four books, most recently The Fall of Lisa Bellow (2017) and Why They Run the Way They Do (2016), both from Simon & Schuster. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South, and her work has appeared in places like One Story, Glimmer Train, Story, The New York Times, and The Sun. She is a professor of creative writing at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.
R.L. Maizes is the author of the novel Other People’s Pets, 2021 Colorado Book Award Winner, and the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper.

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