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FIRST PERSON
The Bookman Cometh
On the continuum from purist to profligate, where do most academics fall when it comes to selling desk copies?
Behind his back, I called him "Hickey," after the charismatic hardware salesman in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. Hickey's real name was embossed on his business card above his title: "Book Buyer." He was the guy who...
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