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name: Luke Jerod Kummer
about: Luke Jerod Kummer’s nonfiction has appeared in  The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York,  New Republic, The Washingtonian, and The Village Voice. Takers Mad, his new Audible Original, picks up the twisting trail of a real-life crime that transfixed New York during the Gilded Age. His 2019 novel, The Blue Period, depicted the tragic events that led a young Pablo Picasso to paint somber portraits in nocturnal shades, before Cubism turned the artist into a celebrity. Booklist called it “lush biographical fiction” and the debut was featured in American Way, Literary Hub, The Millions, Full Stop magazine and Marie Claire Greece.