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Scheherazade – II — My Father

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Adam Nathan
Nov 11, 2023
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My father’s desire to leave an inheritance to his sons was a torment of Greek proportions. He was a book editor by profession, first in academic presses at the University of Chicago and Cambridge University and later for various trade publishing houses in Manhattan.

But the non-fiction publishing for which he was so intellectually suited was a poor matc…

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