Joseph Mackin
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Joseph Mackin is the author of Pretend All Your Life, a novel. He received an MA in Literature from New York University, and has studied writing at Yale and at the IEN in Barcelona, Spain. He was the original Internet editor of The Paris Review under the direction of George Plimpton, and has since developed a number of successful Internet ventures. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.