Sublime

inchoate

susurrus

laudable

On the day in question, she got to work a little early. She’d brought a salted nut roll, boxed, and wrapped in shiny paper printed with snowflakes by sweatshop slave laborers in some country where they’d never heard of winter, let alone Christmas.

opulent

Behind each rearrangement I felt the hand that selected the book, an individual intelligence, rather than a singular formula. Browsing was a way of discovering new things; one could argue that Amazon’s formula of “if you like this, you’ll like that” functions similarly, but the connections at McNally were less direct and literal. They expanded the

collogue.