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Katherine Losse

Katherine Losse
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Katherine Losse

Katherine Losse was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and holds a master’s degree in English from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Marfa, Texas.

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The Boy Kings will be released on June 26, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 26, 2012
The Boy Kings is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 26, 2012

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Mail Online UK, March 27, 2013
...new book 'Lean In' and its advice for working women has met with mixed reviews Former Zuckerberg speechwriter Katherine Losse has written a highly negative critique of it which also attacked her former boss The review prompted the Brandee Barker, a...
New York Magazine, March 27, 2013
...about the issues facing women in the workplace. But Team Sandberg isn't all positivity and support, as Katherine Losse, an early Facebook employee and former speechwriter for Mark Zuckerberg, recently learned. When Losse published a critical review of...
Texas Observer, October 24, 2012
...firmly fixed in the public mind: from scruffy underdog to all-seeing entity no one can escape. Now comes Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of Facebook, a first-person account of the company’s ways from the perspective of a...
KUTRadio, September 12, 2012
...Meira Levinson Sanford Levinson Cynthia Levinson David Levithan Margot Livesy Attica Locke Nikki Loftin Loren Long Diana Lopez Katherine Losse Marie Lu James Luna Michael MacCambridge Kristen-Paige Madonia David Maraniss  ...
San Angelo Standard-Times, September 1, 2012
...be King" by Penny Junor "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse "The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency" by Hugh Hewitt "The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an...
Public Radio International, August 16, 2012
...how do these virtual interactions affect our relationships in real life? Those are the kinds of questions that Katherine Losse, a former Facebook employee, explores in her new memoir, " The Boy Kings ." Losse quit Facebook in 2010 after years of...
NPR, August 10, 2012
...mysteries that follows a 70-something Laotian country coroner. (This piece initially aired August 15, 2008 on Morning Edition). Katherine Losse is author of The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. Larry McMurtry's bookstore is...
Dissent Magazine, January 3, 2013
...fraternity of star brogrammers. I was returned to that time and its enduring frat-boy legacy when I read Katherine Losse’s 2012 memoir The Boy Kings. Losse, an early Facebook employee, stands in for the women at Facebook, moving from outsider to...
Dissent Magazine, January 3, 2013
...many of its products, but also in its offices. Grant’s starting point is a new book by Katherine Losse, the sole woman before Sandberg to occupy a place of prominence in the boy-nerd culture of Facebook. This essay exposes the tension between an online...
Houston Chronicle, August 26, 2012
...The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network By Katherine Losse. Free Press, 256 pp., $26. Reviewed by Alice Tao Most everyone knows about Facebook, but not many people can truly grasp the impact and power of this ever-expanding...
Houston Chronicle, August 26, 2012
..." which was based on the book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich. "The Boy Kings," by Katherine Losse, presents a more personal narrative of the company's development. It's a dark, even dangerous, gilded tale. Tempted by a Facebook bulletin...
Public Radio International, August 16, 2012
...how do these virtual interactions affect our relationships in real life? Those are the kinds of questions that Katherine Losse, a former Facebook employee, explores in her new memoir, " The Boy Kings ." Losse quit Facebook in 2010 after years of...
Huffington Post, August 15, 2012
...book, " The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network ," former Facebook employee Katherine Losse gave audiences a glimpse into the company's culture. "To most of its users, Facebook seemed to come from nowhere; to me, it had meant...
NPR, August 10, 2012
...mysteries that follows a 70-something Laotian country coroner. (This piece initially aired August 15, 2008 on Morning Edition). Katherine Losse is author of The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. Larry McMurtry's bookstore is...