But there was something impersonal about the remainder of the substantial collection, an impression confirmed as she counted, among other glitches in the simulation, multiple copies of Midnight’s Children and The Last Tycoon. (Hughes had left Facebook in 2007 and gone shopping for legacy publications word on the street was that he had first tried, and failed, to purchase this one.) She drifted into the custom-built library and noted two shelves of well-worn titles that, in content and range, struck her as books that had stayed with Hughes since his days as an undergraduate at Harvard. A decade ago, a friend of mine attended a party at the SoHo loft of the Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes on the occasion of his relaunch of The New Republic.
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