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Later the conversation migrated across the street to the back room at Tosca\u2019s, where the general manager of City Lights, Paul Yamazaki, played host to a crowd that included writers Daniel Alarc\u00f3n, Josh Jelly Shapiro, and Shawn Vandor; Graywolf editor Ethan Nosowsky; and private investigator David Sullivan\u2014who really is a private investigator &#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of Lorin\u2019s write-up <a href=\"http:\/\/faz-community.faz.net\/blogs\/editor\/archive\/2010\/10\/08\/viva-city-lights.aspx\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on the California leg of his tour, Lorin has been writing dispatches for the special Frankfurt Book Fair edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 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