Kunal Nayyar: A.J. Fikry
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Amelia : I'd love to get a sense of your taste.
A.J. Fikry : Ah! How about I tell you what I don't like?
Amelia : Oh, sure, why not?
A.J. Fikry : [nods] I do not like postmodernism, post-apocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators or magic realism. I do not like children's books, especially those with orphans and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I am *repulsed* by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie-tie in editions, and I prefer not to stock series, but the demands of my pocketbooks require me to. Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died of cancer to be absolutely intolerable, no matter how well written the sales rep. claims they are, no matter how many copies you promise I'll sell on mother's day.
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A.J. Fikry : No one's perfect. Someone probably made him read Moby-Dick in high school.
