Fringe editor-in-chief Lizzie Stark interviews Kelly McMasters, whose first nonfiction book, Welcome to Shirley came out last year. The book is part memoir, part reportage and chronicles the life of Shirley, Long Island, a blue-collar town located close to the leaky nuclear reactors of Brookhaven Laboratory.
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Lizzie Stark is the Editor-in-Chief of Fringe and a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. Currently she’s working on a narrative nonfiction book about LARP. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College, and an MS in new media journalism from Columbia University. In addition to her literary pursuits, she enjoys making soap, cooking, and blogging about books and nerdularity at LizzieStark.com. Lizzie is a founding editor of Fringe.
Fringe editor-in-chief Lizzie Stark interviews 