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Leigh stein reads from her debut novel, the fallback plan melville house, 2012, and shares poems from her collection, dispatch from the future melville house, 2012, for an interview at the university of dupage with tom fate. Jul 02, 2016 leigh stein shares some writing prompts for girls and women with the rumpus. The fallback plan leigh stein by barbera cutten issuu. Im usually not a huge fan of poetry, but because i really loved the fallback plan, i was drawn to read some leigh stein s poetry, and i. From 2014 2017, she was executive director of out of the bindersbindercon, an online community with 40,000 members. Originally from chicago, poet leigh stein dropped out of high school before taking courses at a community college. Get the fallback plan leigh stein pdf file for free from our online library pdf file. Leigh steins first novel, the fallback plan, was hailed as beautiful, funny, thrilling, and true by gary shteyngart super sad true love story.
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