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Alex Stein
Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit
Tucson, Arizona. Schaffner Press. 2015. 239 pages. We live in a time of brevity. From the truncated language of text messages to the popularity of the 140-word tweet, we have lost our patience for ext…