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Since he achieved widespread acclaim for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, his admiring readers have sent him all sorts of gifts\\u2014artwork, a meteorite. But has anyone sent him pie, and did he eat it? \\u201cI\\u2019m not recalling anything right now; I would have eaten it, though.\\u201d\\xa0 The weirdly intimate connection between reader and writer.