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Eleanor Henderson
Slow down and get further
by, Jill Swenson
March 7, 2014

Shortly after her novel Ten Thousand Saints came out in early 2011, Eleanor Henderson answered a question at a book reading held at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca. When asked how long it took her to write the novel, Henderson said nine years. Nine years. She explained that the first version didn’t even include several of the central characters in the final version. It made… [Read More]

Filed Under: Buffalo Street Books, Daniel Kahneman, Eleanor Henderson, National Book Award, Ten Thousand Saints, Thinking fast and slow
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A Straight-Edge Education
by, Danielle Sherwood
August 23, 2011

Until I picked up Eleanor Henderson’s Ten Thousand Saints, I had never heard the term “straight-edge,” much less anything about a movement of it. At first, I thought the world Henderson created was 100% fiction. I could not have been more wrong. This is understandable, as I was born at the tail-end of all the action and, to add salt to the wound, I grew… [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980's American history, author events, book review, Buffalo Street Books, editing first drafts, Eleanor Henderson, hardcore and punk music, New York City, New York Times Sunday Book Review, research, straight-edge movement, teenage culture, writing historical fiction
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