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Brian Platzer

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Born

in New York City, The United States

Website

http://www.brianplatzer.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

James Baldwin, Dave Eggers, Alice McDermott, Philip Roth, Paul Auster

Member Since

December 2016

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Brian Platzer is the author of BED-STUY IS BURNING ('17) and THE BODY POLITIC ('20) from Atria/Simon & Schuster, and THE TAKING THE STRESS OUT OF HOMEWORK ('20) from Avery/Penguin Random House. Brian has an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA from Columbia University. His writing has appeared often in the New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as in the New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, teaches middle school English in Manhattan, and suffers from chronic dizziness. ...more

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Average rating: 3.34 · 874 ratings · 217 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bed-Stuy Is Burning 3.12 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 2017 — 10 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
	The Body Politic 3.50 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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
	The Optimists 4.53 avg rating — 34 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 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
	Taking the Stress Out of Homework: Organizational, Content-Specific, and Test-Prep Strategies to Help Your ChildrenHelp Themselves by Abby Freireich, Brian Platzer (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2020 — 4 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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Brian Platzer liked Matthew Buckley Smith's review of The Optimists: "I've read all of Platzer's novels, and this is by far his best. The character of Clara--along with her beloved ill-named pit bull!--took up residence in my head the first time I read this book, and I can't imagine I will soon forget her."
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