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Lene Kaaberbol
Lene Kaaberbøl was fifteen years old when her first two books were published, and since then she has written over thirty novels and children's books. She has won several national and ...

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Doctor Death

John Kaag
John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, both of which were named best books ...

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American Philosophy
American Bloods

Carrie Kabak
Carrie Kabak is an author, illustrator and graphic designer. She is the author of an Independent Booksellers' Pick, Cover the Butter. Her essays appear in "For Keeps" and "He Said What?" (Seal Press),...

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Cover The Butter

Boris Kachka
Boris Kachka is a contributing editor for New York magazine, where he has written and edited pieces on literature, publishing, and theater for more than a decade. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Hothouse

Ismail Kadare
Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was born in Gjirokaster, Albania in 1936; his father worked in the civil service. He studied at the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of ...

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Agamemnon's Daughter

Rachel Kadish
Rachel Kadish is the author, most recently, of the novel Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story. Among her many honors are a Koret Award, a Pushcart Prize, and citations in the 1997 and 2003 editions of The Best ...

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The Weight of Ink

Jeanna Kadlec
Jeanna Kadlec is a writer, astrologer, former lingerie boutique owner, and recovering academic. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, NYLON, O the Oprah Magazine, Allure, Catapult, Literary Hub, ...

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Heretic

Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata has been writing since 1982. When she was 25 and completely directionless, she took a Greyhound bus trip up the West Coast, and then down through the South and Southwest. She met ...

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Kira-Kira

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