Jeremy Mercer is an author

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 and journalist

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 whose books include Time Was Soft There (St. Martin's Press

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, New York, 2005) and When the Guillotine Fell (St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press

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, New York, 2008). He has also translated Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter

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's Abolition into English for University Press of New England

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. He is a founding member of the Paris arts collective Kilometer Zero

Kilometer Zero

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. He is also the author of Money for Nothing (October 1999) and The Champagne Gang: High Times and Sweet Crimes (January 1998).

External links

• Jeremy Mercer's official site
• http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,1659513,00.htmlJeremy Mercer's favorite bookstores (The Guardian
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