Alissa Quart is working on a new book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about changes in alternative culture. She is a 2009-2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She also writes a column for Columbia Journalism Review, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of "Hothouse Kids," published by Penguin Press in 2006, and "Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers," published by Basic Books in 2003. She's a contributing writer at Mother Jones and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and many other places. In addition, she is often an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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