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I’ve been published in various venues before, including websites and magazines and books (yes, books sold in Barnes and Noble, not books I wrote and handbound myself and charged family members $5 for, although maybe some of those as well.) I grew up thinking of myself as a writer, assuming I would make a life as a writer, and that “writer” would be my name in the world. I expected I’d feel a certain way (breathless, teary, ecstatic?) upon seeing my full name in magazine print, in book print, upon receiving my first real check for something I’d written, but I didn’t. Which is part of how I learned that I truly love writing, the process, and not writing, the finished product.

But I am so excited about this. Near giddy excited. I have never been so eager to hold a book in my hands or to immediately read it from front to back. For the first time, I feel the way I thought I would feel. So thank you, M & M. I cannot believe you are making us wait until September.

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   I need this book in my hands now now now. Where are the independent bookstores in Baltimore, folks?

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    i’m not gonna lie. i’m really excited...read this book. everyone has such different

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    whoa, ari, congrats! same billing as tao lin! that’s amazing. and yet not surprising.

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    This is happening (!!)

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    DUDE how awesome is this, like really. Can we please make a book too? It could be about all these amazing qualities we...

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