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Reading the City

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a newsletter of bookish events in New York City

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About Tyler Wetherall

I’m the creator of Reading the City, as well as a journalist and author. My debut novel AMPHIBIAN is about the perils and pleasures of girlhood, and my first book, NO WAY HOME: A MEMOIR OF LIFE ON THE RUN, follows my childhood with a fugitive dad.

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