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Mikael ‘Mik’ Awake is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. He has contributed essays to The New Yorker, GQ, Bookforum, The Awl, and elsewhere. With Daniel R. Day, he is the co-author of Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, a New York Times bestseller. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly and Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Books). He teaches at Lafayette College.

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	Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day, Mikael Awake (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	McSweeney's Issue 58: 2040 A.D. (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #58) by Claire Boyle (Editor), Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claire G. Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2019	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
	Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste (Contributor), Sulaiman Addonia (Contributor), Mikael Awake (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 165 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
	Dapper Dan: Fabricado en Harlem by Daniel R. Day, Mikael Awake (Goodreads Author) (assistant), Javier Gómez Peláez (translator) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	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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