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Julie Hecht

Julie Hecht is the author of Do the Windows Open?, Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman, and The Unprofessionals. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker and Harper's. She has won an O. Henry Prize and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives on the east end of Long Island in winter and in Massachusetts in summer and fall. She has been writing stories since she was eight years old.

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Was This Man a Genius? is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 16, 2009
Happy Trails to You is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 16, 2009
Was This Man a Genius? is now available in eBook
Jun 16, 2009
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Jun 16, 2009
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May 09, 2009
Was This Man a Genius? will be released on June 16, 2009 in eBook
Jan 14, 2009
Happy Trails to You will be released on June 16, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Was This Man a Genius? will be released on June 16, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
The Unprofessionals will be released on August 12, 2008 in Trade Paperback
Aug 12, 2008
The Unprofessionals is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 12, 2008
The Unprofessionals will be released on August 12, 2008 in eBook
Aug 12, 2008
The Unprofessionals is now available in eBook
Aug 12, 2008
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The Unprofessionals is now available in
Aug 12, 2008
The Unprofessionals will be released on August 12, 2008 in
Aug 12, 2008

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Huffington Post, April 19, 2013
...lives as artists? VV: One of my favorite--and most surprising-- moments in an interview was when the writer Julie Hecht was asked: "You never do interviews. Why did you agree to this one?" Hecht said, "I don't know. I wish I hadn't. It's really wearing...
Scientific American, March 21, 2013
...so unique. Because dogs don?t write, I?ll be speaking on their behalf. Julie and the dogs I’m Julie Hecht, the human part of Dog Spies. I’m a canine behavioral researcher, science writer and lecturer. I manage Alexandra Horowitz’s Dog Cognition...
Yahoo! News, August 26, 2012
...can survive on Mars? by Steven A. Edwards and by Rose Eveleth Rockstars, Ethograms and Behavior (Problems) by Julie Hecht Planetary alignment pyramid scheme by Phil Plait by Erin Biba Clothes Make the Man Literally and The Neuroscience of Optimism by...
Business Insider, December 27, 2012
...This post comes from Do You Believe In Dog , a blog of letters between canine scientists Julie Hecht and Mia Cobb. Hi Julie , I hope you have had a lovely Christmas, we certainly did! The sun has been shining and we’ve enjoyed seeing our friends...
Psychology Today, December 14, 2012
...a Unifying Principle Behind All Canine Behavior? The July issue of The BARk features an article by behaviorist Julie Hecht. In it she surveys the latest thinking on why dogs hump. “There is not one simple explanation,” Hecht says, “but there are...
Scientific American, December 13, 2012
...There is a new Video of the Week for your pleasure. - Julie Hecht ? - Chris Leamon ? - Christie Wilcox ? - Christina Agapakis ? Scientific Aesthetics - Hannah Waters ? - David Wogan ? - Carin Bondar ? - Alex...
Scientific American, December 12, 2012
...information into the nuances and intricacies of our relationships with dogs. Project Details PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST: Alexandra Horowitz and Julie Hecht SCIENTIST AFFILIATION: Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab, Barnard College DATES: Ongoing PROJECT TYPE:...
Hub 4, September 13, 2012
...new large scale Feed-in Tariff Contract for Difference. The report was eagerly greeted at the launch event and Julie Hecht, marketing manager for Semple Fraser, said: "RWM has been a great platform for us to launch this report to a highly focused...
Psychology Today, September 1, 2012
...to look; it was obviously about humping, which we can also refer to as mounting." So wrote Julie Hecht in her . Indeed, because humping often often offends some people, Julie titled her essay "H*umping". Mounting and humping by dogs are among those...
Yahoo! India, August 27, 2012
...Against Doping Charges and Will be Banned for Life by Rose Eveleth Rockstars, Ethograms and Behavior (Problems) by Julie Hecht Planetary alignment pyramid scheme by Phil Plait We Can Save the World by Eating Bugs and Drinking Urine by Erin Biba ...