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...Eggers so has Palo Alto’s number....
...His real characters include Frederick Douglass, the black American abolitionist, and Senator George Mitchell, broker of the Northern Ireland peace process....
...Two of the stories have been published before: “The Omega Force” in The Paris Review, and “The Albertine Notes” in one of Dave Eggers’ McSweeney’s collections, edited by Michael Chabon....
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