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Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
check out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of seventeen short stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter and boozing hack trying to still make a living in Hollywood.
Daniel Martin Eckhart • Write Write Write
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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
A man and a woman came out of the party and walked past her, laughing. “Don Cheadle,” the woman was saying. “I’m telling you. Don Cheadle.”
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
... See moreI see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Rules of Attraction
There was Thomas Wolfe, wearing a black slouch hat, advancing in his long mountaineer’s stride, with his billowing black raincoat, chanting, “I wrote ten thousand words today—I wrote ten thousand words today.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
pimpmobiles by dazzled New Yorkers because some of the proud owners have made their pile in prostitution, protection and drug peddling in Harlem. Long, low caricatures of cars, their fronts are all grill and glitter, and seem a sort of cross between a colossal chromium coffee machine and a cartoonist’s Rolls-Royce. I would love to drive one down th
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