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George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
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