Karen Olsson
Karen Olsson is a writer at large for Texas Monthly and a former editor of the Texas Observer. Her award-winning writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Baffler, The Nation, and other publications. She lives in Austin.
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Waterloo
- By: Karen Olsson
- Narrator: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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“You’re in a slump.” Nick Lasseter’s boss is talking about his job performance as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly, but he might as well be talking about Nick’s whole life. His current assignment, a profile of a... Read more
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