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Second Chances

My friend the bon vivant bookseller Michael Seidenberg of Brazenhead Books, which he ran out of his apartment in New York City, died in 2019. I'd known him since 1978, when as a teenager I apprenticed myself to his first shop.

Second Chances

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My friend the bon vivant bookseller Michael Seidenberg of Brazenhead Books, which he ran out of his apartment in New York City, died in 2019.

I'd known him since 1978, when as a teenager I apprenticed myself to his first shop.

Michael loved pressing "lost" books and authors on me, and on anyone.

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My friend the bon vivant bookseller Michael Seidenberg of Brazenhead Books, which he ran out of his apartment in New York City, died in 2019. I'd known him since 1978, when as a teenager I apprenticed myself to his first shop. Michael loved pressing "lost" books and authors on me, and on anyone.

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Michael loved pressing "lost" books and authors on me, and on anyone.

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