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A Year in Reading: Bryan Washington

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This year, I read a lot on my phone. That’s a habit I’ve picked up from working gigs where you stand a bunch (watching kids on a swingset, watching adult children park their cars). Some folks don’t vibe with that, but those folks don’t pay my bills, and it meant I could read in doctor’s offices and train stations and airports and noodle bars and passenger seats. I read Alexia Arthurs’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , s , ’s ’s ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s , ’s ,  ’s , s , and the re-issue of ’s .

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