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I said I remembered him writing about Le Jockey and the fight with the British sergeant in one of his stories, but the girl wasn’t Josephine Baker. “No,” he said, “I thought her feeling about the soul was her private business, so I invented a woman to take her place in the story and I left out everything about the soul.

A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and acquaintan... See more

Michael Rosenwald • ‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’

So much of the world is not made by people, and paying attention to that is important to me.”

Rachel Cooke • ‘I’ve Dealt With Anti-Hillbilly Bigotry All My Life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the Real Appalachia and Why Demon Copperhead Was Such a Hit

Meb Keflezighi—the other Boston winner who made you cry—once told me that beyond competition, running is just a great way to experience the outdoors. I totally agree.

requireLazy(["replaceNativeTimer"],function(j){j()}) • Running With Malcolm Gladwell: Arguing About the GOAT, and Sharing What Running Teaches for Life | Meta Bulletin

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Bruce is not the kind of man I usually go out with. He’s married, not tall, when I reach him he pays for my diet Coke with the change he kept from me for parking.

Bret Easton Ellis • The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)

When I talked to Choi in 2014, he said he wanted to create a menu that represented the Koreatown he had known as a child—a place with Mexican lowriders and mixed-race couples.

Jay Caspian Kang • The Loneliest Americans

floodlit Bojangles’ up the hill from his house, and that meat would be drowned in the bubbling fryers by employees whose hatred of the job would leak into the cooked food, and that food would be served up and eaten by customers who would grow obese and end up in the hospital in Greensboro with diabetes or heart failure, a burden to the public, and

George Packer • The Unwinding

Tom Wolfe.”