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'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut

“The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Hanif Kureishi has a character say in The Buddha of Suburbia, “is reread him at thirty-eight.” If that was true, I wondered as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6054 words)

GREATEST ANIMAL NOVELIST OF ALL TIME?

DISCUSSED: Dombey and Son, the Toodles, Bonnets, Sycophancy in Ruins, Nineteenth-Century Book Tours, Robert Altman, Capital-P Pride, Theatricality, Rob the Grinder. I have a suggestion: Forget…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4266 words)
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