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𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒸𝒶 🌪🥩🍸💸 • O.J. SimpStack
“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
newyorker.com
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Same height, same hair colour. She could almost pass for Deborah from behind. But as the woman turned, he could tell she was no more than a cheap imitation. Her leggings were riding up between her butt cheeks, and she was wearing a short puffy jacket and spiky heels, further going to prove she was no Debbie. His Debbie wouldn’t be seen out looking
... See moreCarla Kovach • The Next Girl: A gripping crime thriller with a heart-stopping twist (Detective Gina Harte Book 1)
the bookstore was inhuman.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
... See moreIn twenty years, Joel has never been able to figure out why Fawn had liked him when she was overweight and awkward, and why she dislikes him now that she’s slender and pretty. He doesn’t seem to understand everyone has standards—some people just hardly ever get to apply theirs.
Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
It would seem to have been unwise for Linda Fairstein, the assistant district attorney in charge of Manhattan sex crimes, to ignore, at the precinct house, the mother’s assertion that the son was fifteen, and later to suggest, in court, that the boy’s age had been unclear to her because the mother had used the word “minor”.