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Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam War is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis. ... Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
Crooning: A Collection (1990)