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Jessica Anya Blau’s newest novel, The Wonder Bread Summer was picked for CNN’s summer reading list, NPR’s summer reading list, Vanity Fair’s summer reads, and Oprah Book Club’s summer reading list. It received multiple offers and was optioned to Hollywood. Her novel, Drinking Closer to Home was featured in Target stores as a “Breakout Book” and made many Best Books of the Year lists. Jessica’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties was a national bestseller and was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today show, the New York Post and New York magazine.  The San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers chose it as one of the Best Books of the Year. The film rights were recently optioned. Jessica co-wrote the screenplay for Adventures of Sweet Yellow, a film staring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey.  Adventures of Sweet Yellow is now in post-production in Los Angeles. Jessica’s short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and have won or been nominated for many awards including The Pushcart Prize. Jessica’s nonfiction essays have appeared on the AOL homepage, Newsweek/The Millions, The Huffington Post and many other places. Several of Jessica’s stories and essays have been anthologized in books such as The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading and Writing; and Dirty Words: a Literary Encyclopedia of Sex.