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Joy Lanzendorfer
All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It
Joy Lanzendorfer Considers Ambition, Failure, and Serendipity
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Joy Lanzendorfer
| May 5, 2021
On the 19th-Century Food Writer Who Embraced Gluttony As a Virtue
Discovering the Complicated Pleasures of Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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Joy Lanzendorfer
| October 28, 2020
What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion
Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking
By
Joy Lanzendorfer
| June 18, 2019
Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again
Joy Lanzendorfer on the Author's First and Last Lives
By
Joy Lanzendorfer
| June 7, 2019
My Year of Smoke: Finding Echoes of Frankenstein in the California Fires
Joy Lanzendorfer on Mary Shelley's "Year Without a Summer"
By
Joy Lanzendorfer
| November 28, 2018
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