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Great week in the Big Apple, but now it’s time to get back to work. Here’s a list of some of the items we brought home with us (along with half a dozen bottles of wine and more snacks than Anne Marie and I could eat in a week. ) We probably would’ve gotten more eyes on our books and manuscripts if we’d set up in the Armory, rather than the Lombardy Hotel, but after three decades I’m kinda burned out on that scene. When I visited the Big Show Thursday night, dealers were talking excitedly about the celebrities who were walking the floor. I didn’t recognize a single name.

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