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Incendiary by Michael Cannell

April 23, 2017

– I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review. –

To be published by St. Martin’s Press on 25 Apr 2017
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall―for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters “FP” and left his lethal devices in phone booths, storage lockers, even tucked into the plush seats of movie theaters. His victims were left cruelly maimed. Tabloids called him “the greatest individual menace New York City ever faced.”

In desperation, Police Captain Howard Finney sought the help of a little known psychiatrist, Dr. James Brussel, whose expertise was the criminal mind. Examining crime scene evidence and the strange wording in the bomber’s letters, he compiled a portrait of the suspect down to the cut of his jacket. But how to put a name to the description? Seymour Berkson―a handsome New York socialite, protégé of William Randolph Hearst, and publisher of the tabloid The Journal-American―joined in pursuit of the Mad Bomber. The three men hatched a brilliant scheme to catch him at his own game. Together, they would capture a monster and change the face of American law enforcement.

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Startup by Doree Shafrir

April 22, 2017

– I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review. –

To be published by Little, Brown and Company on 25 Apr 2017
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Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he’s about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business–in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn.

Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.

Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she’s been away.

Before the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack’s scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work, it’s up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold.

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Adidas x Kat – 4/12

April 19, 2017

I’ve been [lovingly?] teasing Kat about how she’s a walking Adidas ad. So when it came to an idea for this month’s photoshoot, we (I) thought it’d be a fun thing to do (an Adidas “ad”). We were going to have Jennifer join us for the shoot and do an Adidas vs. Nike (or some other athletic brand) “face-off.” I threw that idea out there randomly, mostly just to mess with them, but they were totally on board (except Jennifer had lab so couldn’t make it) (but it’s the thought that counts). They’re crazies for being my friends and I appreciate them very much.

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One Shot Coffee

April 17, 2017

This is the LAST cafe post from my epic spring break 2016 cafe crawl. Yeah I’ve been pretty lax about getting these posts out in real-time, but I figured it didn’t really matter, because cafes are perfect all-year-round. Don’t worry, there are definitely more cafe posts to come.

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Bi Fu Cafe (彼伏)

April 5, 2017

This cafe first caught my eye because Bi Fu is the name of one of my classmates (not those characters though). Then my mom told me that that was her friend’s cafe and that there was also a design store upstairs linked to the cafe. (By design she meant fashion design, like, a clothing store, though at first I thought she meant interior design.)

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The English Tearoom

April 3, 2017

In elementary school, I had a friend whose mom had her own tea company, and we’d often go over to her house for tea parties. I remember piles of scones and soaking my black tea with milk and three cubes of sugar. Over winter break, my mom took me to have a little tea party of our own at The English Tearoom.

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