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Actor, playwright, and author ANNA DEAVERE SMITH recently performed her latest play Let Me Down Easy off-Broadway, and appears on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. Nominated for both a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize and winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Award, Smith is the author of Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics, Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts, and the one woman plays Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles. She has appeared in numerous films, including Philadelphia, The American President, and Rachel Getting Married. Smith also teaches both performing arts and law at New York University.
The review praises HIS OWN WHERE, calling it a "fantastic book filled with small, unique scenes and daunting poetry."
BASE TEN written by Maryann Lesert has been named Essential Reading by Literary Mama, a reading and literary website for the "maternally inclined."
Maya Nussbaum, executive director of Girls Write Now.
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