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Q&A with Everyday I Write the Book's Gayle Weiswasser
4/29/2011

Earlier this week I reviewed an excellent debut novel by Susan Barr-Toman called When Love Was Clean Underwear. Susan was kind enough to answer some questions for me, and her answers were very interesting to read. (I recommend reading them now, then reading the book, and then coming back to read them again. Just don't read the spoiler question before you read the book!) Read more...

 

 

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Coming This Weekend, Clean Underwear and Mom

New York Times, The Local, 5/5/2010

By Mary Mann


I have this sister, Susan. She’s written a novel. It’s beautiful, funny, dark, sublime, and it has a somewhat unwieldy title — “When Love Was Clean Underwear.” She will be reading from it at Words bookstore in Maplewood on Friday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. Read more...

Novels She Wrote, in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/15/2010

By Dianna Marder
Inquirer Staff Writer

Brooklyn may be the presumed center of the universe for emerging writers. But Philadelphia is asserting itself as a city of novelists. Read more...

Under the Surface
The South Philly Review, 4/1/2010

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By Jess Fuerst

There are lots of expressions of love. A ring or roses are a few ways people might get the point across. Perhaps even a flirtatious push on the playground is the first sprouting of that overwhelming feeling.
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Susan Barr-Toman's When Love Was Clean Underwear
Philadelphia Women's Fiction Examiner

By Joan Hanna

Susan Barr-Toman was born and raised in Philadelphia. Her debut novel, When Love was Clean Underwear is due out in October 2009 from New Rivers Press. Susan writes mostly about Philadelphians, family and relationships. Read more...


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