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“I was a late bloomer, but anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
-- Sharon Olds

Stephanie Gangi is a lifelong New Yorker. She lives, works and writes in Manhattan. She was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, and raised her own kids in Tribeca, Rockland County and on the Upper West Side.

Gangi’s first publishing credit, many years ago, was a children’s book, Lumpy: A Baseball Fable, co-written with pitching great (and New York Met) Tug McGraw. She ghostwrote a palimony-fueled tell-all about Liberace in 1984 but left the only copy in a taxicab. She has written jacket copy, pitch letters, business plans, PowerPoint presentations, speeches, mortgage checks, absence excuse notes, ...more

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Stephanie Gangi New York City -- particularly Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side, home to the Columbia University campus -- became (without me expecting it!) …moreNew York City -- particularly Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side, home to the Columbia University campus -- became (without me expecting it!) a central character in my novel. I didn't realize how deeply I communicated my love for the city until I started getting reviews and readers called it "a love letter to NYC". (less)

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Stephanie Gangi I got the idea for The Next walking down Broadway in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I was nursing a broken heart, and it was a w…moreI got the idea for The Next walking down Broadway in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I was nursing a broken heart, and it was a warm early fall afternoon, and it seemed like every shop and every car that passed was blaring Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". The popularity -- and anger -- of the song made me feel a little bit better. We've all been there. I wanted to capture that raw jealousy and rage that I was secretly feeling too, but could never express ... except through fiction!(less)

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	The Next 3.23 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Feel it all, feel it all, leave it all behind. Love it and let it go. Let the living live, maybe that’s the lesson, my lesson, and maybe within that awareness, ta-da, the path I need to the light of peace will be revealed.”
― Stephanie Gangi, The Next

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“My idea is to look back from the brink of sixty and tell my story. The brink of sixty, it’s rough terrain for anybody, time to take stock of your life even if you didn’t have Miriam Marx as a mother.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

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“This is not my beautiful life.”
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