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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled The Other Side of Everything about Publishing, Anthony, Linda with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Literary.
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conversations.value: the author, working as Linda Ruth, has been a columnist, business writer, magazine consultant, and web editor. She is co-founder and past-president of Exceptional Women in Publishing and partnered with the International Womens Media Foundation, and the Stanford and Yale Publishing Courses. She has been named one of the top three thought leaders in publishing by the Mequoda Group, and has published three storys in her field. The Other Side of Everything, her first novel, has been compared to the work of Anthony Trollope by Tony Anthony (Long Before the Next War) and called funny and heartbreaking, the best read of the year by Cathy Utzschneider (professor at Boston College and author of Move!). Watch for more stories about the fictional town of Riverboro, New Hampshire.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: The Other Side of Everything
  Amy put on a pot of rice and spot-cleaned the house. She threw a tablecloth over the old sun-stained teak patio table, and took out all her wedding-gift tableware—the thin Riedel glasses she never used for fear they might break; the large glass votive hurricanes; the silver-plated ice bucket. When Steven arrived, it was as though she had planned the dinner for weeks.
  When dinner was ready, Amy took her usual seat at the table, facing Adel's house, and Steven sat to her left.
  She sat a moment and thought about it, thinking back to the night she tried to paint a portrait of Charles Abbott, how one face pushed through the other.
  They ate, for a few minutes, in silence, Adel's burned house in the background, the flickering candles in the foreground. Steven told her about the quirky billionaire that Kenny worked for, who was currently spending six months in the Arctic.
  In all the time Amy had been in Florida, she'd never been on a proper boat in the Atlantic. "Where do you go?"
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: The Other Side of Everything
  Amy put on a pot of rice and spot-cleaned the house. She threw a tablecloth over the old sun-stained teak patio table, and took out all her wedding-gift tableware—the thin Riedel glasses she never used for fear they might break; the large glass votive hurricanes; the silver-plated ice bucket. When Steven arrived, it was as though she had planned the dinner for weeks.
  When dinner was ready, Amy took her usual seat at the table, facing Adel's house, and Steven sat to her left.
  She sat a moment and thought about it, thinking back to the night she tried to paint a portrait of Charles Abbott, how one face pushed through the other.
  They ate, for a few minutes, in silence, Adel's burned house in the background, the flickering candles in the foreground. Steven told her about the quirky billionaire that Kenny worked for, who was currently spending six months in the Arctic.
  In all the time Amy had been in Florida, she'd never been on a proper boat in the Atlantic.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: THERE WERE YEARS of cancer—either going through treatment or getting over it—but in the end, it was six weeks that he remembered, the six weeks after they realized that there wouldn't be another recovery, another remission. By then it had spread to her liver and nothing was working. Her skin turned yellow and she was hot and cold, like a child with a fever. She was in almost constant pain—which is why the marijuana. They smoked it together, sitting up in bed and watching television until Irene would pass out again and Bernard would go into the kitchen to make grilled cheese or to cry.
  He called the kids one after the other, starting with Pam, then John, then Dan. He didn't want them there—didn't want them crowding the house—but he knew they had a right to their mother's last days. Pam came immediately. John too. It took Dan almost a week, and a pleading phone call from Pam, to get him to come down from Connecticut. But he came. And soon they were all there—no kids, no spouses—just the five of them, together in the house, the way it used to be.
  The first night they were all there, Pam cooked dinner and they sat around the table together, the five of them, and everything—the table, the room—felt absurdly small. It was as though the house had shrunk without them, and when they returned, it was not large enough to fit them. Bernard remembers Dan's knees, bumping up against the underside of the table, water sloshing out of their glasses. Irene joked that the house never felt so small and so full all at once.
  John wanted to plan. Wanted to talk about "after"—right then and there, with his mother at the table.
  Pam focused the family, settling them into a steady routine. She took care of bathing her mother, of calling the doctors, filling prescriptions, and coordinating with the hospice nurse. She told the boys what to do—yard work, mostly, but also shopping, also getting Bernard out of the house. They went bowling one night, Bernard and the boys, somewhat strangers in rented shoes. Bernard didn't know what to do out of the house, didn't know how to be. Also, he realized, he didn't know his sons. Irene spoke to them over the phone. She knew all their kids' birthdays and what their sizes were and the things they liked. She knew how things were going at work for the boys, how they were getting on. Bernard knew them through her, but in a way not at all.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: A: I read widely, but particularly love literary fiction and memoir. I just read The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and it really blew me away.
  A: I'm working on a novel about a trio of women who don't yet know that they are sisters. Their lives are very different from one another's, so it explores the choices that women make, and how they live with those choices. 
  LAUREN DOYLE OWENS is originally from Maryland. She is a graduate of Florida International University's MFA program, and lives near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, Chris. is her first novel.
  For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or business@simonandschuster.com.
  Subjects: LCSH: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Serial murderers—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: A: I read widely, but particularly love literary fiction and memoir. I just read The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and it really blew me away.
  A: I'm working on a novel about a trio of women who don't yet know that they are sisters. Their lives are very different from one another's, so it explores the choices that women make, and how they live with those choices. 
  LAUREN DOYLE OWENS is originally from Maryland. She is a graduate of Florida International University's MFA program, and lives near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, Chris. is her first novel.
  For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or business@simonandschuster.com.
  Subjects: LCSH: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Serial murderers—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.