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Kathleen Collins

Goodreads Author

Born

in Rochester, NY, The United States

Website

https://katcoindustries.com/

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Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Member Since

October 2013

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Kathleen Collins’s nonfiction books include Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows, Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology, and a memoir, From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television. Study in Hysteria is her first novel. She is a professor and librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Her first novel will be published by Vine Leaves Press in February 2024.

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Average rating: 3.46 · 145 ratings · 49 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows 3.33 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2009 — 10 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
	Study in Hysteria 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 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
	Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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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Kathleen is Currently Reading

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Dead-End Memories: Stories

by Banana Yoshimoto

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The Finishing School

by Muriel Spark

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Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir

by Craig Mod (Goodreads Author)

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Kathleen’s Quotes

“My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”
― Ellen Willis

tags: optimism

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