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Listen to George Plimpton
“Paul Tavilla”
SummerStage, 2003
Paul Tavilla does this as a hobby; he catches grapes dropped from high buildings. Indeed, he is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the champion in this rather specialized field, having in 1988 caught a grape in his mouth from the top of the John Hancock Tower in Boston...
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Philip Roth
Philip Roth at the 2010 Spring Revel
Spring Revel, April 2010
I was ecstatically happy. The Paris Review and the Holland America Line had carried me a long way from correcting comma faults at the University of Chicago. [Click here to read a transcript of Roth's speech.]
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