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Hanging Myself On The Telephone

For a few years, off and on when I needed to make money, I would sit in the basement of a brownstone in Brooklyn and answer phones, pretending to be other people. It wasn’t as exciting, or demeaning, as, say, … Continue reading

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Always Be Breathing

The hoary maxim of the sales field, ABC — Always Be Closing — was admirably explicated by Alec Baldwin in the film “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Though as loathsome as the “Fuck you! That’s my name” character Baldwin portrayed (“third prize … Continue reading

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