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New York, 11:36 PM
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    Image of contains_hot_liquid contains_hot_liquid
    11:30 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    I am not surprised by this Eugenides theft (I guess?), but having worked in bookstores for too long, my experience with stolen books has always been, in order:

    1. anything Bukowski (way more than anything else)
    2. Jesus' Son
    3. Vonnegut
    4. Burroughs
    5. Brautigan
    6. (as mentioned further down) the Bible
    7. City Lights anything

    The lesson is: hide your B's.
    Also: fucking hippies.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    07:10 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    Faded actors often set up a spectacular bust to attract attention just before their memoirs come out. John Wilkes Booth, the list goes on. Lifting your own, though, that makes a definite middlebrow statement about the product: it's worth stealing, although not worth buying.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06:12 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    Drunk. Boulder. Author.
    Could be anyone.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06:00 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    STEAL THIS BOOK!
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    05:56 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    STEAL THIS BOOK!
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    05:50 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    Is Jon Krakauer the father of Steve, of Mediaite, or was that just a joke?
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    Image of CrayonSmoothie CrayonSmoothie
    05:49 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    An author with an alcohol problem behaving badly? Boy, that really narrows it down...

    Are we sure it was a local? Maybe Christopher Hitchens was rolling through town.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    05:02 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    Very Important Comment alert:

    That cat looks exactly like my cat.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    08:55 PM

    @Richard Lawson: Does your cat have an alibi?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    04:37 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    I guess that stealing directly from the publisher would be too logistically challenging, but wouldn't a bookstore owner likely just give the book to the writer if s/he asked for it, minus any potential embarrassment?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    05:04 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: Well, but why? The bookstore would be out money, particularly if we're talking about multiple copies, and the author doesn't have any relationship with the bookstore that would obligate them to spend money on him or her.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:09 PM

    @MissNormaDesmond: Ah, yes, logic! I was thinking only if the author asked for a couple copies that the bookseller might be prompted to acquiesce in the name of goodwill, that's all. Kind of: a story to tell, a little photo op, some sort of small reciprocity.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    05:10 PM

    @Lysergic Asset: Oh, sure, that makes sense. But, see, I'm imagining Hunter S. Thompson trying to walk off with a stack of books.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    05:13 PM

    @MissNormaDesmond: It's a very amusing visual.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    04:33 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    David Sedaris is a dirty thieving gypsy.
    Proud of it!

    I think an awful lot of authors go through Boulder on their book tours, it might not be necessarily one who lives there.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    04:25 PM

    In reply to What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?
    This has got DeLillo written all over it.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12/13/09

    In reply to Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out
    Reading that op ed piece in the Herald Tribune the other day I really, really hoped the unnamed liberal arts school was my old school, Bard.

    When I was there we renamed several of the dorms after the members of Steely Dan.
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    Image of Our Lady of the Massacre Our Lady of the Massacre
    12/13/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: I was thinking it might be Bard too!
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    12/13/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre: It sounds like something we would have done if Harry Potter had been around when I had been there.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/13/09

    In reply to Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out
    Does any of the college marketing material ever tout their resemblance to the school in The Secret History?
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    Image of moonfaerie moonfaerie
    12/13/09

    @raincoaster: one would sincerely hope not!
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/13/09

    @moonfaerie: Are you kidding? Sounds like just my kind of place.
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    Image of moonfaerie moonfaerie
    12/13/09

    @raincoaster: well then if frenzied Roman orgies and violent crimes are your kind of thing...i guess you'd fit in there, then?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/13/09

    @moonfaerie: GREEK orgies. Jesus, what do they teach kids in schools nowadays.
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    Image of moonfaerie moonfaerie
    12/13/09

    @raincoaster: well, clearly it wouldn't be my kind of place...
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    12/12/09

    In reply to Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out
    I always thought it was funny that my school (not one of the ones in the article) always liked to say how ITS new freshman dining hall "looked like the Great Hall"...because it had high ceilings and communal dining tables. Seriously? I mean, nothing about how it has totally modern, non-medieval-y architecture and therefore it could NOT look like Hogwarts, but...high ceilings. Dumbasses.
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    Image of RocktheDebit RocktheDebit
    12/12/09

    In reply to Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out
    Please. Everyone knows the University of Chicago is the real American Hogwarts:
    1. Our symbol is the phoenix. That's right, THE PHOENIX.
    2. In order to get to Hogwarts, you have to take the train from a hidden platform through Scotland and then take carriages through the Forbidden Forest. In order to get to the U of C, you have to take the Red Line through the South Side to 55th/Garfield and then take the 55/Garfield bus through Washington Park. I'm not sure which is scarier late at night.
    3. Ambitious, wanted to take over the world, sent the world into darkness and dispair. Am I describing Slytherins, Chicago School economists, or both?
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