title of both the book and the opening poem is taken from the second half of Goethe’s Faust and describes paper money. Other poems in the collection reference the works of John Kenneth Galbraith, Nietzsche, and Edith Wharton. Bibliography The Heaven-Sent Leaf (2008). Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (2003). Winter Sex (2002). References External links Official website Profile in The New Yorker's Talk of the Town Interview with Matt Borondy in "Identity Theory" Interview with Kurt Andersen on NPR's "Studio 360" Interview with Anne Strainchamps on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" Interview with Tess Vigeland on NPR's "Marketplace" Interview with Canadian Public Broadcasting's "As It Happens" Katy Lederer's Author Page at Wave Books Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of German-Jewish descent American memoirists University of California, Berkeley alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Place of birth missing (living people) American women poets American people of Polish-Jewish descent Writers from New Hampshire People from Concord, New Hampshire American women memoirists 21st-century American women