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Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests exce
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Zach Horwitz
@zachhorwitz
This afternoon I found a $50 bill in the foyer of the building near the mailboxes. It was folded thin and full of cocaine. Some of it spilled when I opened it up, but there’s still plenty left. So that’s $50 in cash and around $80 worth of cocaine—$130! If I find $50 every day, I won’t need to get
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’
George Eliot • Middlemarch
Jon Eisenberg
@jonkeisenberg

Shawn Lucas
@shawnwlucas