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Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Rules of Attraction
In 1979, police officers chased thirty-three-year-old insurance salesman Arthur McDuffie on his motorcycle, claiming he’d made a vulgar gesture at them. When McDuffie toppled off the bike, police removed his helmet, beat him to death, and then replaced the helmet. My father used to have a copy of a poem about this event on his wall, titled “Who Kil
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered in the indoor evening gloom like dust floating in the air.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
