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I'm not an academic I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.
Blake Bailey
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Blake Bailey
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 1
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Oklahoma City
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