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Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick is the author of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, and Logavina Street. She was the Los Angeles Times’s Beijing correspondent for seven years and is currently the Janice B. and Milford D. Gerton/Arts and Letters Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library.
 (November 2020)

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