

One night, a dancer was so high that we all thought someone had slipped something into her drink because it had the hallmarks of a date-rape drug: she was happy but sleepy and pretty much incapacitated.

Her first novel for adults is Real Easy and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.Ībout twenty years ago, I worked as a stripper in two different clubs, which helped pay off debt from my undergraduate education and make it a lot easier to attend graduate school.

She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and a New York Times bestselling author of books for children and young adults. Born in Illinois, Marie Rutkoski is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard University.
