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Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera YA_Gift_Guide Number One was the greatest"George Singleton is a very funny man. He could write about a tootsie roll and keep me reading," says Abigail Thomas, author of Safekeeping and A Three Dog Life, about Singleton's new collection of personal essays. Readers of his celebrated short story collections (The Half Mammals of Dixie, You Want More, and The Curious Lives of Non Profit Martyrs, among others) know just what a master storyteller Singleton can be. Yet in this collection of essays,