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Rene Steinke

René Steinke is the author of the novels The Fires, Holy Skirts, which was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, and Friendswood. She is the Director of the MFA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Friendswood

Books

Friendswood

What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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