Category: literature
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an evening with sal bass
Had the privilege of hearing Salman Rushdie speak Sunday night at Emory — you can read my all-too brief and rushed account here. It’s not easy being the smartest guy in the room — having once covered an “old-fashioned cross burning” at the home of Howard Stern’s favorite Klansman, Daniel Carver, I can relate —…
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A dispatch from the Algonquin
I do not like my state of mind; I’m bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn for lovely lands. I dread the dawn’s recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find…
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