“Who the fuck do you think wrote the Book of Revelation? A bunch of stone-sober clerics?”

Peter traveled with universal notebooks, taking notes on the right-hand pages, leaving the left blank until he used them for his first run at usable copy—usually in the evening after a day of reporting.

Befriending George Plimpton.George’s questions were like trampolines, a technology he admired. They bounced you higher—to the next question. This was particularly true when he was talking about writers and writing.“Did you know that the great C…

The arts are our wild edge, the wilderness areas of the imagination …
—Claude Lévi-StraussJim Harrison gained international renown as a storyteller of literary genius, but through all the novels and novellas and films that made him a celebrity, he…