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Former Altie Writes Book for the "Young, Hip, Cynical and Degenerate"

By AAN Staff
july 15, 2008  12:32 pm
Former Altie Writes Book for the "Young, Hip, Cynical and Degenerate"
So says Washington Post critic Patrick Anderson, who describes ex-Omaha Weekly (now Omaha Reader) news editor Jonathan Segura's "Occupational Hazards" as "a savagely funny first novel" that tells a "dungeon-dark tale of low-rent journalism, political corruption and rampant degeneracy in a hellish Omaha." According to Anderson, Segura joins ex-Philadelphia City Paper editor Duane Swierczynski as mystery writers whose work is part of a new trend in the publishing business of releasing offbeat novels direct to paperback.
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