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“They were in the smaller, formal mess—far enough off the main grid that you could forget for a second that you were living at the end of eight miles of tunnels.”
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“What makes things interesting to the reader? It depends on the quality of writing and perception—which, I suppose, is what people say when they’re banging on about Proust!”
“Failure is the story, but the story itself is also failure.”
“It’s a good time to investigate the paradoxes and special strangeness of Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens, oddly alike in some ways and so different in others. Two fascinating new documentaries try to puzzle out the stories of these two much-missed…
“The war is over. / The builders come: / they build doors with archways; the ceilings are high”
“The illustrations collected here depict some of the unverifiable experiences that Montague later catalogued in a handwritten autobiography.”
“After moving to Greenwich Village in the late fifties, Machado became a fixture of the queer theater, art, and activist movements then emerging in downtown New York.”