By Darel Snodgrass
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Darel Snodgrass talks with Emily Yellin about the release of the paperback edition of her book Your Call is (Not That) Important to Us.
Memphis, TN – Emily Yellin is the author of Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us (Free Press 2009) and Our Mothers' War (Free Press 2004), and was a longtime contributor to The New York Times. She has also written for Time, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications.
Born in White Plains, New York, Emily grew up in Memphis. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a degree in English literature, and received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She has lived in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, but currently lives in Memphis.
Emily decided to write Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us while waiting on hold one day in her freezing cold house, only to argue on the phone for hours with customer service at a home warranty company before convincing someone to come fix her broken furnace.
Emily Yellin will be signing books at Burke's Bookstore in Cooper Young on Thurdsday, 2 September 2010. For more information on Yellin and Your Call is (Not That) Important to Us, visit http://www.emilyyellin.com/