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AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION: CATHERINE NEWMAN AND KAREN DUKESS PART OF THE CASTLE HILL AUTHOR TALKS

Catherine Newman has written numerous columns, articles, and canned-bean recipes for magazines and newspapers, and her essays have been widely anthologized. She is the author of the novel We All Want Impossible Things; the memoirs Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness; the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night; and the bestselling kids' life-skills books How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Karen Dukess is the host of the Castle Hill Author Talks, a series of virtual and in-person interviews with some of today's most exciting authors. Her debut novel The Last Book Party was an IndieNext and Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick. Her new novel, Welcome to Murder Week, will be published next summer by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro on Cape Cod.