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" Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. "

Stacey D'Erasmo

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" One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. "

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