His nodding effects a reluctant intimacy, as if many a customer could not get this kind of attention out of Steve

Everybody had a target on his back. His or her back. Lists up all over the building so you had to look and see who’d bump you. Or whom you …

We are sitting at a sidewalk table in the stream of tourists. They are tanned or burnt and have the slow swagger of people on holiday, the slap of flip-flops. …