Imagine all the different ways people smoke. There’s the cinematic post-coital smoke, the break-up-the-work-day smoke, the pack-a-day smoke, the one-a-day smoke, the-I-only-smoke-at-parties smoke, the hiding-it-from-everyone smoke, and the long-slow-deep-drag-of-cool-Didion Esque-contemplation smoke, to name a very few…

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Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ can leave a reader breathless – LA Times