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Begging Your Leave

A brief summer break, then surgery

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Jeff Stein
Jul 18, 2022
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I hate vacations. Sort of. Leaving behind unfinished work makes me batty for awhile—until I settle in with a good book or two on the beach. (This week it’s going to be Jake Tapper’s much praised noir mystery/suspense novel of the JFK era, The Devil May Dance, and Mark Leibovich’s reportedly riotous take on the Trump carnage, Thank You for Your Servitude…

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