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Lenora Mattingly Weber, Meet the Malones (1943; reprint, Calif.: Image Cascade, 1999), 1.
Ibid., 23.
Ibid., 1, 46.
Ibid., 41.
Ibid., 51–52.
Ibid., 64–65.
Ibid., 102–3.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Beany Malone (1948; reprint, Calif: Image Cascade, 1999), 186.
Ibid., 77.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Come Back, Wherever You Are (1969; reprint, Calif.: Image Cascade, 1999), 132.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Make a Wish for Me (1956; reprint, Calif.: Image Cascade, 1999), 245.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1963; reprint, Calif.: Image Cascade, 1999), 93.
Weber, Something Borrowed, 139.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Pick a New Dream (1961; reprint, Calif.: Image Cascade, 1999), 193.
Ibid., 250–51.
Ibid., 254.
Ibid., 258.
Ibid., 252.
Epilogue
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930; reprint, New York: Vintage, 1989), 63.
Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), 50.
Maureen Corrigan
Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading
Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. Her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and other publications. Winner of an Edgar Award for criticism, Corrigan also regularly writes a mystery column for The Washington Post and teaches literature at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter, both avid readers.
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