Are They Really Your Friends if They Don’t Read Your Work?

Dec 11 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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In the months leading up to the publication of my first collection of stories, I was in a fever of excitement. Finally, people will read my work! My friends will read it. The book came out and I had a publication bash given by a wonderful cousin; my goddaughter oversaw the selling of autographed books and everybody at the party bought one. It was everything I had imagined! I was delighted.

A week later, I was perusing the stacks of used books at the Housing Works Bookstore in New...

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