I recently placed an order online for the novel Pound for Pound by F. X. Toole, This novel was edited down to 384 pages from a nine-hundred-page manuscript by F. X. Toole’s agent and a freelance editor after Toole passed away. F. X. Toole is also the author of Rope Burns, which is a collection of short stories including “Million Dollar Baby,” upon which Clint Eastwood’s movie is based. Million Dollar Baby is one of my favorite movies (along with Lost in Translation), so I’m looking forward to reading this novel. Speaking of movies, I recently saw Talk to Me with Don Cheadle at the Drexel. Not a bad movie.

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