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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
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John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I don’t believe there was better basketball player and human being than the man I called Norman (his middle name). There was no one I competed with harder and had more respect for than him. Just before Wilt died in October 1999, he and I were having one of our marathon telephone calls. Wilt simply loved to talk, and it was impossible to stop him wh
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It is of course undeniable that television is an example of Low Art, the sort of art that has to please people in order to get their money.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Other Princeton players aren’t always quite expecting Bradley’s passes when they arrive, for Bradley is usually thinking a little bit ahead of everyone else on the floor.
