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Missing Man, Father of Six, Survived By Four (opens the original)
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1.I’ve been working on a long author profile for the past couple weeks — similar to what I’ve written for The Metropolitan Review about William T. Vollmann or Bret Easton Ellis — and I want to show you one of the interesting threads I’ve been exploring. 2.This is Donald Pollock. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/i
Will Smith's Sex Life (opens the original)
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One-Legged Fantasy (opens the original)
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1.On September 11th this year after two or three glasses of wine I took a shower and went to bed. Stared at the ceiling with the lamp on. Marie came in and lay on her belly beside me and read something off her phone about the 9/11 anniversary. In 2019 I read three books about 9/11 back to back and suddenly the uglier details were coming back and I shared them with her: like the fireball that tunneled down the elevator shaft upon the first plane’s collision and shot twenty feet deep into the Worl
Guess Who Else Is Getting Divorced! (opens the original)
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1.Last month at a bar in the Gables my friend Bob was telling me about his divorce when, at a low point in the story, he lifted his brows faux-perk: “Hey but y’know who else is getting divorced?”It was Cooper. Cooper’s the younger sister of our mutual friend Jason. Cooper’s autistic.Cooper married a woman who is also autistic. Cooper’s and Jason’s parents bought the newlyweds a house but it’s under the parents’ name and just a block from their own. There’s a two-person rotation of caregivers who
Kevin Smith According to Kevin Smith (opens the original)
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Kevin Smith has been telling his life story for thirty years through blog posts and memoirs and podcasts and interviews and social media. I’ve been following along since I was fifteen. I’m now thirty-five. While listening to a recent slate of Smith interviews, as he promotes his Dogma roadshow, I started wondering, as an experiment: how deep could I go, reconstructing the story of Kevin Smith’s formative years, based entirely on what he’s said about them? So I tried it out. Here’s the result. It
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