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- If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.
- ... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles…
- Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the…
- American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
- You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and…
- I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
- I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry.…
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