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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

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• In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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