Archives for November 2009

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So many immortals are buried at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris — Balzac, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Max Ernst, for starters — that the witty artist Arman must rank among them as a mere mortal. But his stylish, minimalist headstone has the best epitaph of all of them. (“Alone at last!”) I saw it […]

I didn’t want to post this item, especially because I have no interest in writing anything that might be misconstrued as a defense of Goldman Sachs. But has anybody besides my staff of thousands — Bill Osborne, to be precise — noticed that Matt Taibbi’s description of Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped […]

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Dave Teeuwen’s Interview with Graham Masterton on William S. Burroughs is a gem — every last word of it — and especially the remark that Burroughs said “he felt as if he had never lived the life he was supposed to live, and that somehow he had ended up as an outsider on the edge […]