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The Words Find Me

Thanks to bookstores, past and present, for the cure to literary ennui

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Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Jan 16, 2023
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‘The Words Find Me’

I had moved back to San Francisco to tune in, turn on, and drop out.

I had spent the end of the ‘80s in Hollywood, and when my job as associate editor of Hollywood Magazine ended with the termination of the magazine’s printing, I decided it was time to go back home.

I have always been a reader of books, and as I was plowing through Joh…

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