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Rose Owens

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Born

in Greenbrae, California, The United States

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Humor

Influences

David Bowie, William Faulkner, Maira Kalman

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November 2008

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Rose Owens comes from a background of enthusiastic individuals, who absolutely frolic throughout their every day lives, sampling and engaging in absolutely everything. She is attempting to follow in their gracious footsteps, and hopes that by the end of her life, she will have read “Remembrance of Things Past” and sampled the cheeses of the world. She lives in San Francisco.

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The Rise and Fall of the Horror Film

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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

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“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

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