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Dear Don Draper, It’s a Wonderful Life
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Berryman and Yeats Light Up
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Pink Cigarettes
Lighting up.Why not?I smoked my first cigarette with three or four friends near the pond behind our middle school. We obeyed all the stereotypes, puffing and passing, accusing one another of not...
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Kool Customer
Hunter S. Thompson, who would be seventy-nine today, started smoking Kools when he was a sophomore in high school; he remained loyal to the brand until 1962, when he discovered Dunhills. In 1960, he...
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Oops, and Other News
This is what happens when you touch the art.Guess what, people? Your garden-variety, Norman Mailer–style, chest-thumping, self-aggrandizing narcissist is obsolete. This is the twenty-first century,...
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Smoke
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Lynda Barry on ‘Picture This’
Lynda Barry is many things: a cartoonist, best known for her long-running strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek; the author of two illustrated novels, Cruddy and The Good Times Are Killing Me; and the...
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Dear Don Draper, It’s a Wonderful Life
Dear Don Draper, Birthday greetings from the year 2012! Adam Wilson here, writing to tell you that things will be okay! I know life looks bleak right now, Don. You just turned forty. You’re feeling...
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Berryman and Yeats Light Up
Tomorrow marks the centenary of John Berryman’s birth. I went in and asked for Mr. Yeats. Very much like asking, “Is Mr. Ben Jonson here?” And he came down. He was much taller than I expected, and...
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Pink Cigarettes
Lighting up. Why not? I smoked my first cigarette with three or four friends near the pond behind our middle school. We obeyed all the stereotypes, puffing and passing, accusing one another of not...
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Kool Customer
Hunter S. Thompson, who would be seventy-nine today, started smoking Kools when he was a sophomore in high school; he remained loyal to the brand until 1962, when he discovered Dunhills. In 1960, he...
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Oops, and Other News
This is what happens when you touch the art. Guess what, people? Your garden-variety, Norman Mailer–style, chest-thumping, self-aggrandizing narcissist is obsolete. This is the twenty-first century,...
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Now
Photo: Arun Kulshreshtha For Robert Silvers And you could say we’ve been living in clover From Walt Whitman to Barack Obama. Now a dictatorship of vicious spineless slimes We the people voted in has...
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Staff Picks: Berger, Brock-Broido, and Beauman
John Berger When asked to describe my literary interests, I used to say that John Berger was the first white man I loved, and also the last. Now he’s dead, but his final book is forthcoming. In May,...
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Smoke
PROLOGUE There’s never smoke without fire. This was first said by someone suggesting a rumor might be well-founded. Words in the media today often function like a smoke screen for hiding flames. The...
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Ave Marías: An Interview with Javier Marías
It has been said of Anthony Trollope that as soon as he finished a novel, he turned to a fresh page and started on the next, and it’s tempting to think that Javier Marías enjoys a similarly...
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