There Was No Seat for Me at the Luxury Restaurant. By Dessert, They Regretted It

— genuinely, not for show, the kind of laugh that comes from something actually striking him as funny rather than from the social calculation that laughter is expected here. I had liked that about him from the first time he came into my bookstore, eight months ago, and wandered through the stacks the way people wander through old buildings — not looking continue reading …