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If you’re thinking of giving me something this Christmas, I’d be happy to unwrap this book. It’s available at NB, just so you know.

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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.

-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

He turned back to me and half-leaned, half-sat, on the kitchen table. ‘Everything takes time,’ he said, ‘and—well, yes, sure, I can make a living at it. But what I don’t seem to be able to make you understand is that it’s the only thing I want to do.’

‘Well, Sonny’ I said gently, ‘you know people can’t always do exactly what they want to do—’

‘No, I don’t know that,’ said Sonny, surprising me. ‘I think people ought to do what they want to do. What else are they alive for?’ [emphasis added]

-Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin

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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

Fifth Edition

R.V. Cassill

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Coelho’s latest treat! Click on the pic to read the book’s first chapters (I-XII) for free.

There’s no secret ingredient. What you need to do is believe that something is special, and it will be special.

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