在我2003年的第一次巡回巡回赛和2009年的下一个书中，我访问过的许多地方都经历了重大的转变或消失了：科迪在伯克利，费城的七个分支图书馆，在哈佛广场的十四个书店，哈里·施瓦茨（Harry W.
(Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody's in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Harvard Square, Harry W. Schwartz in Milwaukee and, in my own hometown of Washington, D.C., Olsson's and Chapters.)