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Louise Rafkin’s articles and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals including The New York Times, The Utne Reader, Ladies Home Journal, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Phoenix. In addition, she received the Publishers Weekly’s ‘Listen Up’ Award: Best “Humor” Audio of 1998. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

She never imagined she’d end up cleaning refrigerators or have a preference for a particular brand of paper towels. But what started out as a quick way to earn a living became a curious preoccupation with all things clean…and messy. Witty and revealing, her book “Other People’s Dirt” is a thoroughly irreverent look at the untidy business of life.

“Rafkin, a longtime professional housecleaner, literally gets the dirt on her posh clients. She pores over their homes like a ‘spy,’ putting together clues about their lives (it’s amazing what you can learn from the toilets of the rich)” -Publishers Weekly

“Epic: Stories of Survival from the World’s Highest Peaks,” edited by Clint Willis, is all about the climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits.

With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions.

“If you liked Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, read this book.” –The Boston Phoenix

Clint Willis has been a climber and an armchair mountaineer since he was ten years old. His writing has appeared in more than 100 publications, including Men’s Journal, Outside, Rock & Ice, The New York Times and Worth.

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