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hfojvt

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13. I had to google that

Reply to dmallind (Reply #11)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:27 PM

Feb 2012

I never heard of Sedaris.

His connection to Binghamton seems like my connection to Columbia, born there, but didn't spend much time there.

I once visited Millville, Wisconsin. They had a brochure about all the famous people from Millville, including, I think, a Nobel-winning physicist of all things. But no mention of Clifford Simak, who set many of his books in Millville, or rural Wisconsin.

Authors will just never be as big as TV, sports or cartoons.

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