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ADAM REID SEXTON is the author, editor, or adapter of more than ten published books. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, the Boston Phoenix, Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, the Mississippi Review, the New York Times, Palimpsest, Post Road, and the Village Voice, as well as on the Websites babble.com and offassignment.com, among others.

Sexton teaches creative writing at Yale University. He has lectured at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., in Central Park, and elsewhere. He has been interviewed about writing and literature by Time, the Washington Post, and npr.com, and one of his classes was broadcast on BBC radio.

Sexton received his B.A. in English from the University of Pe ...more

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	Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats 4.06 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2005 — 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
	Desperately Seeking Madonna: In Search of the Meaning of the World's Most Famous Woman 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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
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	CliffsNotes on Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 3 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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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

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