SUSAN COLL is the author of Word Salad: A Novel (Harper Muse) and seven previous novels, including Real Life & Other Fictions, and Bookish People. Her novel Acceptance, a satire of the college admissions process, was made into a 2009 television movie starring Joan Cusack and Mae Whitman. Her other books include The Stager, The Literati, Beach Week, Rockville Pike, and Karlmarx.com. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post, and online at NPR, the Atlantic, and The Millions. She works at Politics & Prose Bookstore and was president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for five years.
