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Rebecca Johns

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Rebecca Johns is the author of two novels, Icebergs (Bloomsbury USA, 2006), which was a PEN/Hemingway Finalist, and The Countess (Crown 2010), which has been translated around the world. Her writing has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Ploughshares, Printer's Row Journal, the Mississippi Review, the Harvard Review, and Narrative, and numerous commercial magazines and newspapers such as Bride's, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Mademoiselle, Self, Seventeen and Woman's Day. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is the director of the MFA/MA program in creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago. ...more

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A Celebration of Superheroes

Some of you know my friend (and the co-director of my Harry Potter Study Abroad program) Paul Booth runs the DePaul Pop Culture Conference every year. This year I'm popping in to talk about how SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE refreshes the superhero story on May 1. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/events/68460.... Hope to see you there!

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“Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.”
Rebecca Johns, The Countess

“I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.”
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“Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.”
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