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Nov.29.2009
HI, Everyone--
I rarely do this, but I do feel that the issue of Gary McKinnon, which I wrote about today on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/stop-the-injustice-free-g_b_372654.html
is a terrible injustice, and I hope that you will go to the link and read my post,...
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Dec.07.2007
I love to hang out in the betting halls or walk between the paddock and the railing. I love to look at the jockeys, at the trainers; I love the feeling of the grandstand looming over everybody, and the pastoral quality.
–Me, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, talking about Horse Heaven
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About Jane
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School).
After getting her Bachelor of Art at Vassar College in 1971, she...