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Even Americans Who Hate Amazon Can't Seem to Live Without It

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By Brian Dumaine | May 19, 2020

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WATCH: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Solitude and Sociability

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Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 18 to 24

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Here's Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

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Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

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