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What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Acknowledging Almost Angel Another Anyway Being Coming Cool Couple Even Hollywood Human Human Being Late Like Marsh Maybe Never Nightclub Obscure Playing Speaking Totally

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Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

~Carolyn See

Topics: African Beautiful Between Born Child Childhood Circumstances Civil Civil War Country Dead Extraordinary Extraordinary Circumstances Free He His Left Life Sad Set Sierra Sierra Leone Soldier Some Spent Then Through War West While

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It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Certainly Editorial First Learned Magazine Manly Recipe 1970S

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There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Days Get Go Going Jerk Know Saying Then Three Tours Traveling Whom Within You

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'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Almost Desires Inappropriate Morbid Story Wants

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If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

~Carolyn See

Topics: About Any Condition Human Human Condition Know Like Little Means More Pick Side Skip Up Way You

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I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Any Appeal Book Egypt Heard Hold Little Me Name Never Robert Think Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 13th, 1934

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