… for UD is receiving review copies of books on subjects of interest to her and her readers. UD knows that truly fancy people find getting these things annoying.
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Indeed one of UD‘s memories from a long-ago weekend in John Kenneth Galbraith’s Vermont house involves her coming across, on a table by his bed, an enormous pile of review copies of all sorts of books. UD sat down in an ecstasy and lost herself in these just-published goodies, but it was clear that JKG himself didn’t feel as happy about it.
UD just picked up, at the Garrett Park post office (remember that her town doesn’t get home delivery), a review copy of White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, by Carl Elliott. She’s reading it now.