What We've Lost Is Nothing

  About the Author

  Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, radio commentator, and professor of creative writing at American University. Her first book, Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, was featured on more than two dozen public-radio programs across the United States, including This American Life, Marketplace, and The World. She has contributed regularly to NPR’s All Things Considered and she hosted the public radio series Global Guru and Latitudes. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, and many other publications. Originally from Chicago, she has lived in Boston, London, and Phnom Penh, and currently lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and daughter. She received her MFA from Emerson College. What We’ve Lost Is Nothing is her first novel.

  ALSO BY RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER

  Fugitive Denim:

  A Moving Story of People and Pants

  in the Borderless World of Global Trade

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  Excerpts from “Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from Harlem” © 1960 by

  James Baldwin. Copyright renewed. Originally published in Esquire.

  Collected in Nobody Knows My Name, published by Vintage Books.

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