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Oct.13.2008
When I had my first short story published four years ago, I thought, This is it. This is all I have ever dreamed of. I can now die happy as a writer. Then I had my second story published, and I felt, Well, good for you, two stories published is certainly better than one. Then some agents read...
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Jul.30.2008
As I stood outside our home in Santa Monica yesterday after the earthquake, having apparently done exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to do, which is stay inside, find something heavy like a desk or a dining table, and crawl beneath it in case a rain of debris comes down on you ("...
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About Deirdre
Deirdre Shaw's first novel, Love or Something Like It, will be published by Random House in April 2009. Her fiction has appeared in Swink and Folio, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New York Observer. She held fiction...
Causes Deirdre Shaw Supports
Planned Parenthood, Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles Library Foundation