What is the name of the first published collection of essays and short stories by the brother of the actress who plays Jerri Blank in the tv series "Strangers with Candy"?
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Amy Sedaris Amy Louise Sedaris ( ; born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, voice actress, singer, author, screenwriter and comedian. She is known for playing Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series "Strangers with Candy". She regularly collaborates with her older brother David, a humorist and author. Since 2014, Sedaris has voiced the character Princess Carolyn in the Netflix animated series "BoJack Horseman".
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David Sedaris David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, "Barrel Fever", in 1994.
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Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing is a 2005 book which includes Julian MacLaren Ross's novella "Bitten by the Tarantula" (ISBN  ) collected together with a selection of his short fiction, unfinished longer fiction, essays on cinema, essays on literature and book reviews, and his literary parodies.
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Tony Richards (author) Tony Richards is a dark fantasy or horror author. He was born in 1956 in Greenford, England, and educated at University College School, Hampstead, before going on to study law at Middlesex University. Although he has written science fiction, mystery, and even mainstream stories, he is principally an author of supernatural, dark fantasy, and horror fiction. He has published three full-length novels, five novellas, and more than sixty short stories. His work has seen print in most major genre outlets, and he is a frequent contributor to Cemetery Dance Magazine and to anthologies compiled by the British editor Stephen Jones. An avid traveller, his fiction is often set in locations he has visited, most notably in his 2004 stand-alone novella Postcards from Terri, where the peripatetic heroine of the title goes to Hong Kong, Japan, Africa, Switzerland, Nicaragua, Istanbul, Budapest, Barcelona, Ottawa, Chicago, New York, Vancouver, and San Francisco during the course of the story. It is this quality that prompted the editor, publisher, and critic John Pelan to say of him: "He’s convincing … convincing enough that the locals will read about their city as described by Tony Richards and shudder. And that’s what we call a writers’ writer." He has twice been nominated, first in 1988 for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for "The Harvest Bride", and then in 2008 for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection for "Going Back". He is married to Louise Richards, and lives in London. His latest novel, "Dark Rain", is set in the fictional town of Raine’s Landing, Massachusetts, and is intended to be the first of a series of books located there. The second such novel, "Night of Demons", is scheduled for publication in 2009.
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Lauren Slater Lauren Slater (born March 21, 1963) is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of seven books, including "Welcome To My Country" (1996), "Prozac Diary" (1998), and "Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir" (2000). Her 2004 "Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century", a description of psychology experiments "narrated as stories", has drawn both praise and criticism. It was nominated for a "Los Angeles Times" "Kirsch" award for science and technology writing, and was named as a 2005 "Bild Der Wissenschaft" book of the year in Germany. Criticism has focused on Slater's research methods and on the extent to which some of the experiences she describes may have been fictionalized.
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Elissa Schappell Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, "Use Me", a collection of 10 linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine "Tin House" and Editor-at-Large. She was previously a Senior Editor at "The Paris Review". She is a Contributing-editor at "Vanity Fair", and was the longtime of author of the "Hot Type" book column. A second book of fiction, "Blueprints for Building Better Girls", was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by "The San Francisco Chronicle", "The Boston Globe", "The Wall Street Journal". "Newsweek/The Daily Beast", and "O Magazine". She teaches at schools including Columbia University, NYU, and Queens University. Originally from Delaware, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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Jeri Watts Jeri Hanel Watts is an American author and professor, known for her book "Kizzy Ann Stamps" and "A Piece of Home", which won the 2017 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She currently lives in Virginia, where she is an associate professor at Lynchburg College.
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Geoffrey Wolff Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) and fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Berlin (2007), and the Guggenheim Foundation. His younger brother is the writer Tobias Wolff.
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Stranger than Fiction: True Stories Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (published in the United Kingdom & Australia as Nonfiction) is a non-fiction book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2004. It is a collection of essays, stories, and interviews written for various magazines and newspapers. Some of the pieces had also been previously published on the internet. The book is divided into three sections: "People Together", articles about people who find unique ways of achieving togetherness; "Portraits", interviews and short essays mostly about famous people; and "Personal", autobiographical pieces.
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Jami Bernard Jami Bernard (born August 10, 1956) is an American author and media consultant, an award-winning film critic for "The New York Post" and "The New York Daily News", and the founder of Barncat Publishing. She has appeared in documentaries as herself, including the Independent Film Channel's "Indie Sex" series, on which she was a consultant. Bernard wrote a "Lois Lane" comic for DC Comics in which Lois is based on Bernard's early career at "The New York Post". Bernard is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows; appearances include on "Oprah", "The Today Show", and "Lynn Samuels" on Satellite Radio. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, including "Entertainment Weekly", "Seventeen", "Glamour", and "Self".
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The Steam-Driven Boy and other Strangers The Steam-Driven Boy and other strangers is a science fiction short story collection by John Sladek, published in 1973.
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Couples, Passersby Couples, Passersby (German: Paare, Passanten ) is a 1981 short story collection by the German writer Botho Strauß. It consists of narrative vignettes and aphoristic sequences divided into six sections: "Couples", "Traffic Flow", "Scribbles", "Dimmer", "By Ourselves" and "Idiots of the Immediate".
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Gemma Files Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series "The Hunger".
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Candy Spelling Carole Gene "Candy" Spelling (née Marer; born September 20, 1945) is an American author, television personality, and philanthropist. She is the widow of Aaron Spelling.
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Doon Arbus Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. She is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus. Her sister, Amy Arbus, is a photojournalist. Doon was 26 when her mother committed suicide, and now manages her mother's estate.
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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush is a 1982 children's novel by Virginia Hamilton and is about a girl, Tree, who lives with her mother and older brother, and her involvement with a ghost.
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Aurelie Sheehan Aurelie Sheehan is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels, "History Lesson for Girls" and "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects", as well as a collection of stories, "Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant." She is an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Brother and Sister "Brother and Sister" is a well-known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of "Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales)". It is alternatively known as "Little Sister and Little Brother" or (in the Grimm's version) ""Brüderchen und Schwesterchen"".
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Caitlin Davies Caitlin Davies (born 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers. Hunter Davies wrote regularly about Caitlin and her brother Jake and sister Flora in a weekly "Punch" magazine column which ran in the 1970s, giving a broad insight into their upbringing. In her youth she was also frequently referred to by Auberon Waugh in his "Private Eye" diary.
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Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson AM (born 1950) is an Australian children's author. Born in Young, New South Wales, she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TV Washington Correspondent Michael Gleeson, and the mother of "Home and Away" actress Jessica Tovey and Sydney Morning Herald journalist Josephine Tovey. Her sister, Margie Gleeson, works as the head teacher of Creative and Performing Arts at Albury High School.
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The Sunny Side The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in "Punch", to which he was a contributor and later Assistant Editor. "The Sunny Side" collects his columns for "Punch", which include poems, essays and short stories, from 1912 to 1920.
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Marisa Matarazzo Marisa Matarazzo is an American author from Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her collection of interconnected short stories, "Drenched", published by Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint. She is the daughter of abstract artist Francine Matarazzo and John H. Schumann, a professor and researcher of Applied Linguistics. Her brother is actor Ethan Peck. She earned her BA from Yale, where she received the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, and the Arthur Willis Colton Scholarship. She was a two-time recipient of the Elmore A. Willets Prize for fiction. Earning her MFA from UC Irvine, she was the recipient of the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship.