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And even cheaper is Christopher Frizzelle's Sales Support Award, currently fetching a lousy $15.50. A cheap opportunity to humiliate your favorite Books Editor at twice the price!

Shteyngart is our Amis? Our Smith? Our Smith-Amis? That the bar could and too-often fails to be set much higher in the first place, is another point entirely, but I'd say it's quite doubtful that Shteyngart's even at that level. I know you're big on Ms. Smith, Mr. Frizzelle, but I think you're affording her too much weight and merit all the same. That you're according as much now to Shteyngart just devalues it that much more. Unless it was simply hyperbole for charity's sake, which hyperbole can be excused. For the sake of charity and bland opportunism, I hope it went for much more than $15.50.