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I surround myself with ambition: Maud Newton's got a book review in the Times and another friend has managed to do the impossible and write a Modern Love column that doesn't suck. And I was sitting at a table with the both of 'em at the Water Taxi Beach on Saturday night. I've always imagined being in the presence of two Times writers, but I assumed that it would be Ariel Kaminer and Deborah Solomon, and that there would be a cattleprod involved.