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Elsewhere, cultural performances continue, with hitherto banned books appearing in the stalls of sidewalk bookstores.

He has been Joe Goldberg, the well-read manager of a New York City bookstore.

“I yearn to be banned again,” said Waters, lamenting that his books are by the front door of bookstores rather than “by the true crime near the bathroom or the gay section in the back.”