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BOOKS ACROSS AMERICA

a documentary
Abou Maso

From Director, Mason Engel

Author of 2084
  • a modern spinoff of Orwell's dystopia, 2084 has been downloaded over 35,000 times
  • also the author of nonfiction ebook, How to Improve Your Writing, and several works of SFF and magical realism
Director of "The Bookstour"
  • a public television documentary about indie bookstores
  • an official selection at the Brooklyn, Miami, Portland, Louisiana, and Brattleboro Book Festivals
Director of "Story Road"
  • a public television documentary about the path of the modern writer
  • featuring interviews with Andy Weir, Hugh Howey, Nnedi Okorafor, and Christopher Paolini
Midwesterner and bookish Bourdain
  • now living in his hometown of Columbus, Indiana, Mason works on his films and novels, and dreams of making a "Parts Unknown" for the book world.
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Director - Mason Engel

Participating Authors

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     Ernestine Hayes    

     Kristin Hannah    

      Brent Weeks     

  Patricia Marcantonio  

   James Lee Burke   

       C.J. Box       

      Thomas Isern      

  Kawai Strong Washburn 

      M.K. Coker     

       Cindy Kirk      

     Laura Moriarty    

   Adib Khorram   

      Kaveh Akbar     

      Beth Nguyen      

      Veronica Roth     

        Ross Gay       

     Peter Ho Davies    

    Hanif Abdurraqib   

 _ GennaRose Nethercott  

      Lisa Gardner     

     Michael Koryta    

       Ken Liu       

     Marie Force     

      Wally Lamb      

     Walter Mosley      

Alaska

Washington

Oregon

Idaho

Montana

Wyoming

North Dakota Minnesota

South Dakota Nebraska

Kansas

Missouri

Iowa

Wisconsin

Illinois

Indiana

Michigan

Ohio

Vermont

New Hampshire Maine

Massachusetts

Rhode Island Connecticut

New York

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   Joyce Carol Oates  

 Carmen Maria Machado 

  JoAnn Balingit  

      Clint Smith      

    David Baldacci    

 Jennifer L. Armentrout 

       Silas House      

     Ann Patchett      

      Tayari Jones      

  Sarah Addison Allen  

     Faith Hunter     

   James Patterson    

  Lila Quintero Weaver  

  Maurice Carlos Ruffin 

 Michael Farris Smith 

    Ayana Gray      

    Justin Cronin    

     Oscar Hokeah     

    Andrea Gibson    

   Brandon Sanderson   

     Lorena Hughes    

  Isabella Maldonado   

      Robyn Carr     

     Leigh Bardugo    

    Chris McKinney    

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

West Virginia

Kentucky

Tennessee

Georgia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Florida

Alabama

Louisiana

Mississippi

Arkansas

Texas

Oklahoma

Colorado

Utah

New Mexico

Arizona

Nevada

California

Hawaii

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