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Henry Miller • Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill
To die violently is “righteous,” a flash. To keep on living, as Peter Fonda points out in The Wild Angels, is just to keep on paying rent. A successful bike movie is a perfect Rorschach of its audience.
Joan Didion • The White Album: Essays
structure.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The Parade of the Power Brokers had, to anyone interested in the nuances of true power in New York State, been a good show. It was to be the last Robert Moses ever produced. The imperial guard would never charge for him again.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
William Safire
Cynthia Weiner • A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Tom Wolfe.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
