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“He was in an extra rage that Labor Day. Against his own decline. His death. I think he actually believed that, because of who he was and what he had, he wouldn’t die. Not because he took great care of himself, because he didn’t, but because he couldn’t imagine being anything less or other than what he was.”
Kate Racculia • Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts
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Then he and Scribner discussed a limited edition of William Butler Yeats’s works.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1941).
Herbert A. Simon • Models of My Life
Wolfe had been an influential advocate in the 1970s
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
On Writing Well
Youri Cviklinski • 3 cards
The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10
Robert D. Richardson • Emerson: The Mind on Fire
“But I know that he has a gun. And from the way he is acting—”
William Maxwell • So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)
Marcia Davenport was in Prague finishing East Side, West Side, which she dedicated to Perkins.