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Shane Finkelstein

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Walker Percy, Philip Roth, Jonathan Tropper, Stephen King

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October 2013


Shane Finkelstein grew up in Valley Stream, Long Island and majored in English at the University of Maryland. After college, he moved to Atlanta and published a magazine called University Reporter, which subsequently became INsite Magazine. After nine years in Atlanta, he met his soon to be wife Courtney and they traveled around the world in Y2K. Returning to the states, Shane and Courtney moved to New Orleans and opened a burrito joint in the CBD called Nacho Mama’s. In 2003 and 2007, the Finkelsteins opened two more locations, on Magazine Street and in the Elmwood Shopping Center. During his time in New Orleans, Shane has continued his passion for writing, with feature stories in INsite Magazine, Where Yat Magazine and the New Orleans Lev ...more

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Shane Finkelstein I don’t have a lot of time to write with my full time business as a restauranteur and as a father of three young kids so writer’s block hasn’t been an…moreI don’t have a lot of time to write with my full time business as a restauranteur and as a father of three young kids so writer’s block hasn’t been an issue for me. I usually have the next chapter or two marinating in my head for a week or two before I find the time to put it to pen.(less)
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The Miser

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Charlie was short for Charlene, or at least that’s what she told Ira. At work she went by Rose because of the tattoo stretched across the inner part of her pasty thigh. She was from Gulfport, Mississippi, a senior in high school, just past eighteen, or so she said. Charlie spent her weekends in New Orleans, stripping at one of those dive clubs on Iberville between Chartres and Decatur.
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