Robin Epstein (Author of God Is in the Pancakes)

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Robin Epstein is a writer, runner, professor and astronaut* (*in her own mind). Beginning her career as a comic and television writer. Her last young adult novel, God Is In the Pancakes, was an official selection of the 2012 New York State Reading Association (NYSRA) Charlotte Award Master List. She's written for the New York Times, Marie Claire, Glamour, as well as other publications. A contributor to This American Life on NPR, she also writes video games and books for TV shows on the Disney Channel. Robin attended Princeton University, got her MFA from Columbia University, and teaches at NYU. She currently lives in New York with her fetching pit bull Bandit. ...more

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Is HEAR part of a series???

Robin Epstein I hope so! I've always intended it to be a three book series, I have the other two books outlined and ready to go... but now we just need to see how t鈥辞谤别I hope so! I've always intended it to be a three book series, I have the other two books outlined and ready to go... but now we just need to see how the sales are to convince my publisher to go through with it. #crossingfingers(less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Robin Epstein Over almost three decades, a small laboratory at Princeton University
managed to embarrass university administrators, outrage Nobel
laureates, entice th鈥辞谤别Over almost three decades, a small laboratory at Princeton University
managed to embarrass university administrators, outrage Nobel
laureates, entice the support of philanthropists and make headlines
around the world with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the
course of events. 鈥擳he New York Times, February 6, 2007

WHEN I READ THAT first sentence in Benedict Carey鈥檚 front-page
article about what sounded like an ESP lab, I shook my head
in disbelief. A laboratory that studied psychic phenomena? At
Princeton University? Impossible!

But after racing through the article, then tumbling down
a Google hole of curiosity, I discovered that not only did the
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab (PEAR) exist, it
was modeled on similar laboratories at Stanford and Duke. And
the more I read on the subject, the more fascinated I became,
especially after learning that the Department of Defense, CIA
and US Army Intelligence had spent millions of dollars studying
parapsychology, the quantum physics of consciousness, andtraining their officers to become psychic spies. They weren鈥檛 the
only ones; the Soviets had a psychic warfare program, too.

The lab and university I write about in HEAR are entirely
made up. But though the study of ESP is real and well funded,
the subject itself remains controversial: Is it true science or science
fiction? The doubters know their answer. Yet a lesson I鈥檝e
learned over the years is that just because I don鈥檛 fully understand
something doesn鈥檛 mean it can鈥檛 exist. If that were the
case, I wouldn鈥檛 trust math or believe in love either.
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	God Is in the Pancakes 3.76 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear 3.39 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaking Her Assets by Robin Epstein (欧宝娱乐 Author), Renee Kaplan 3.43 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Pajama Party: Slumberrific Six (Groovy Girls Sleepover Club, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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GOD IS IN THE PANCAKES

So this is the new "new" book! Amusingly (and that word should probably be in quotes, too), I wrote and sold GOD IS IN THE PANCAKES long before Amy and I had even the glimmer of the idea for SO SUE ME, JACKASS! And in the 3 years it's taken for Pancakes to hit the shelves, we pitched, sold, wrote and came out with Jackass last September. But it's finally time for the Pancakes, and I'm very happy

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“Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.”
― Robin Epstein, God Is in the Pancakes

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“Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?”
― Robin Epstein, God Is in the Pancakes

tags: answers, god, universe

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“I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
'What does that mean?'
'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.”
― Robin Epstein, God Is in the Pancakes

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