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My father yells ‘What you gonna do with your life?’ Oh daddy dear, you know you’re still number one But girls, they want to have fun Oh girls just want to have fun . . . Cyndi Lauper’s breakaway hit had a hook that never left you—it echoed through your brain until you couldn’t bear… Read more »

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When I first started putting out books a little more than twenty years ago, Barnes and Noble was known in the business as “the Elephant.” The chain was the Elephant in the room—the big, not-quite-gentle threat that you could neither ignore nor play without. The old joke was that if the Elephant invited you to… Read more »