The Melancholy of a Bookstore Day Trip for a Wayward Writer

How can you be sad when you’re surrounded by thousands of books? Yet I was.

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Yesterday I wandered through a nearby Barnes & Noble. It was a simple thing, mostly just browsing to see what new books were on the shelves, but something crept upon me as I walked past hundreds of books, many of which had been published…