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Doug Moe: Want to know a secret? UW’s Nagy pens fine novel

SO THERE is this new novel that’s getting picked up by book clubs out in the Pacific Northwest but hardly anybody in Madison, where the author lives, even knows he wrote a book.

Somebody needs to remind Casey Nagy what the celebrated writer/journalist Jimmy Breslin once said: “If you do not blow your own horn, there is no music.”

“I’m not a self-promoter,” Nagy was saying Friday.