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What happened was I wanted to make the Great American Comedy. I was reading a lot of joke books and that was the other dream, to be able to write a joke book. Like a novel consisting of just one-liners. I was reading a lot of the Milton Berle books, and before that I’d wanted to make the Henny Youngman biography, it was called Take My Life, Please!
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Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
opening fire in a synagogue outside San Diego, killing a sixty-year-old congregant