Julia Slavin
Julia Slavin is the author ofThe Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Storiesand the novelCarnivore Diet, which Jonathan Yardley of theWashington Postchose as one of the best three books of fiction of 2005. Slavin is the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award,GQ’s Frederick Exley Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew. “Covered” was read by Alec Baldwin as part of the Symphony Space Selected Shorts...