Wordstock Festival 2011

Blake Nelson grew up in Portland and attended Wesleyan University. He began his career writing short humor pieces that explored the slacker west coast lifestyle for Details magazine in the mid-nineties.His first novel GIRL was excerpted in Sassy Magazine and has since been published in eight foreign countries and made into a feature film. The sequel DREAM SCHOOL is forthcoming in November 2011. Nelson’s novel PARANOID PARK was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant. The...
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John Corey Whaley grew up in the small town of Springhill, Louisiana, where he learned to be sarcastic and to tell stories. He has a BA in English from Louisiana Tech University, as well as an MA in Secondary English Education. He taught public school for five years and is now a full-time writer. WHERE THINGS COME BACK is his first novel. He currently resides in Louisiana, where he is working on his second novel. He is obsessed with movies, music and traveling and he owns an orange...
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