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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to ‘Cathy’ and then tell you, ‘No, it’s Kathy with a K’ – it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

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June 13, 2024

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

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June 13, 2024

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs – successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that’s as it should be.

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