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New Letters on the Air: Clancy Martin

Chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2009, How to Sell is a funny expose novel about the jeweler's trade, in which author Clancy Martin worked for many years before becoming an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.By New Letters on the Air

Kansas City, MO – Martin talks about writing this coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old Canadian high school drop-out. The book, described by Zadie Smith as a "funny, unforgiving novel told in a fresh, disconcerting voice," is just out in paperback.

Listen here until June 2, 2010.

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