Slate BooksA roundup of recent books by Slate staff and contributors.

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David Plotz, Slate's deputy editor, is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. Click here to read Plotz's "Seed" series that inspired this book. Click here to read a Slate excerpt of The Genius Factory. Click here to read an excerpt from the publisher.

Emily Yoffe, writer of Slate's "Dear Prudence" column and "Human Guinea Pig" and "Heavy Petting" contributor, is the author of What the Dog Did: Tales From a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. Click here and here to read two Slate excerpts of her book.

Edward Jay Epstein, who writes "The Hollywood Economist" for Slate, is the author of The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood and News From Nowhere, an analysis of network news organizations. Click here to read some of his Slate columns, and here, here, and here to read excerpts from his books.

Mark Alan Stamaty, a Slate illustrator, is the author of the children's books Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq and Who Needs Donuts?, about a boy who heads to the city on tricycle in search of donuts. Click here to read an excerpt of Who Needs Donuts?

Jim Lewis, a Slate contributor, is the author of The King Is Dead, a novel about a troubled son's exploration of his father's history. Click here to read an excerpt.