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Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season, Martyrs’ Crossing, and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen. She has won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. She writes for The New Yorker and The Nation and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at UC Irvine.

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Farewell, Fred Voodoo
Farewell, Fred Voodoo A Letter from Haiti By: Amy Wilentz
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2013
The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentz’s award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as “a remarkable account of a journalist’s...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Rainy Season
Rainy Season Haiti Since Duvalier By: Amy Wilentz
This edition: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publication date: April 13, 2010
"The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of...
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger By: Amy Wilentz
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: August 14, 2007
From one of our most astute writers comes an irreverent, hilarious portrait of the state of California, its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, celebrities she can't place, famous salons, and the neglected office of one...
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Other Formats: eBook