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John Pipkin

John Pipkin
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, John attended Washington & Lee University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Ph.D. in British Literature from Rice University. He was an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Rhetoric at Boston University before moving to Austin, where he served as the Executive Director of the Writers’ League of Texas. Currently, he is the Writer-in-Residence at Southwestern University, where he teaches literature and creative writing. He also teaches creative writing at the University of Texas, and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. John is the author of the novels The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (October 11, 2016) and Woodsburner (2009).
http://www.johnpipkin.com/


The Man Who Invented Bookselling As We Know It

On James Lackington's Temple of the Muses, "The Cheapest Bookstore in the World"
October 11, 2016  By John Pipkin
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