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Poetry-loving, religious and with deep regrets about some of his comedy: either the standup comic has grown up, or he was never as laddish as his image suggested
What time did to Christopher Hitchens
There are so many perils awaiting sex in serious fiction these days that you could almost forgive a writer for playing it safe and sticking to the merely suggestive until you remember that prudence is the enemy of art.
“I’ve been collecting these theories of why writers write because so many writers have written about it.”
As time marches on, we all wonder, “What’s going on here — and what have I been...