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On Friendship and Plump FruitA letter to Oleg re: Bıçakçı's take on the human condition
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Confessions of a Restaurant HostessBarcelona Wine Bar always had a two-and-a-half to three-hour wait list. We maintained it with paper and No. 2 pencil. When the line got that long I would tell hopeful diners honestly how many names were ahead of them but anything less than that — 90 minutes, 45 — I’d qualify per…
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Letter of ConcernOn Collapsing Noses and Bank Runs
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Two Person Book ClubOn Barış Bıçakçı's "The Mosquito Bite Author"
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