Stephen Fishbach, author portrait
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Stephen Fishbach

Stephen Fishbach is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and former television executive. A two-time Survivor contestant (voted onto the show the second time by millions of fans), he’s worked on the network side as a Vice President at MTV and freelanced for a reality producers’ trade group. He cohosts the Survivor Know-It-Alls podcast and hosts the literary podcast Paraphrase. Stephen graduated with honors from Yale and received a master of fine arts in fiction at New York University. His short story “To Sharks”—an excerpt from Escape!—was published by One Story, which garnered Stephen the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two daughters.
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Tue Jan 27 | 07:00 PM
POLITICS & PROSE BKSTR, INC.
5015 CONNECTICUT AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Thu Jan 29 | 07:00 PM
BOOK PEOPLE 6TH AND LAMAR
603 N LAMAR BLVD
AUSTIN, TX 78703-5413
Google Map

Fri Jan 30 | 07:00 PM
The Strand at The Church of the Village Stephen Fishbach in conversation with Emily Nussbaum
201 West 13th Street
NEW YORK, NY 10011
Google Map

Mon Feb 02 | 07:00 PM
RJ JULIA BOOKSELLERS LTD
768 BOSTON POST RD
MADISON, CT 06443-3047
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Tue Feb 03 | 07:00 PM
TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS Stephen Fishbach in conversation with Sophie Clarke
338 NEWBURY ST BSMT B1
BOSTON, MA 02115-2700
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Wed Feb 04 | 06:00 AM
SYMPOSIUM BOOKS
240 WESTMINSTER ST
PROVIDENCE, RI 02903-1908
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Dear Librarians: A Letter from Stephen Fishbach, Author of Escape!

“That sweltering, pouring jungle was a far cry from my other formative literary experience in the cozy children’s section of the Santa Monica Public Library. There, the hardest decision wasn’t who I had to vote off the island, but how I could possibly check out only two books at a time.”

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