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An otherworldly landscape, interrupted by BGE hole-diggers.
Marvels of design hiding in plain sight around the city.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, John Dos Passos, and Sinclair Lewis were “not very good” writers.
Man, it’s hard. What year is it (#614)?
Taking a walk through a nicer part of town.
My grandfather's name was technically Thomas Woodrow Wilson, but like many Southerners of the time, he went by his middle name.
Who knew that Abiqua Falls was on private property?
America’s still a “proper country,” as it was decades ago when suburban teenagers went cruising with family cars.
Where does MacDougal St. begin?
Recalling Martin Gardner’s contemplations of the afterlife.
Regaining stability by helping others.
Where car parts and lights are manufactured without pressure from the city.
Part three (Harvey goes to college)
Please take away my rights and money’s worth, and I’ll pay with undying loyalty, gratitude, and respect.
I couldn’t believe I’d never heard of her.
And shower stalls in the Japanese army.
How would he continue on with any sanity after witnessing violence, mayhem and murder up close?
The impossibility of reality.
I want my pain. I need my pain.
Harvey sensed a heaviness to the weight underneath his eyes.
Guilt for being happy is weird.
The late author talks about his time working in the LAPD, collecting anecdotes on the job, and more in this interview with Open Road Media.
The author talks about his work, Ernest Hemingway, and America in this January 9, 2003 interview.
"Marry rich. And read."
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.