Dawn Raffel's new book is The Secret Life of Objects, which was selected for Oprah's Summer Reading List, 2012 and reviewed in the San francisco Chronicle as "a lean, brilliant, playful memoir." She is also the author of two collections--Further Adventures in the Restless Universe and In the Year of Long Division--and a novel, Carrying the Body. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, BOMB, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Brooklyn Rail, The Quarterly, NOON, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She is the books editor at Reader's Digest and the editor of The Literarian at The Center for Fiction.