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Fascinating, imaginatively idiosyncratic. (Chicago Tribune) Did you know that Walt Whitman was fired from a government job because his boss found Leaves of Grass immoral? Or that the most stolen books in the United States are the Bible and The Joy of Sex ? In this fascinating look into... read more

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First Sentence

Early in 1990, I wrote a piece for the New York Times Book Review on the fatuousness of book acknowledgments and dedications.

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  1. John Maxwell Hamilton (Author)
 

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