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Friends Who Checked Out Early. #1. Billy Nimble.

Posted on December 4, 2014 by dorian thornley

Billy Nimble was a fat contract cleaner. I don’t mean he’d show up at your crime scene with a vat of acid and a hacksaw no, he’d come to your place of business and get his bucket and little Hoover … Continue reading →

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Stockholm Syndrome or the Feel of the Real

Posted on March 31, 2011 by dorian thornley

Riding the A Train in the morning I look around (as many booksellers do) and try to gauge the ratio of e-readers to print books. Most mornings it’s about 50/50, some mornings it seems to be mostly books and on the mornings when despair sets in … Continue reading →

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