February 2012
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Cormac McCarthy Is Correct
Quantum Man, a biography of physicist Richard Feynman written by Lawrence M. Krauss, was first published in hardcover in March 2011. It comes out next month in paperback, and as the back of the book makes clear, it now has edits from [Cormac] McCarthy himself. According to Krauss, McCarthy liked the book so much he volunteered to work on it. In addition to reworking certain passages, McCarthy...
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“Carlos Lehder hero-worshipped Hitler. He talked about this openly. I don’t care...”
– Jon Roberts, American Desperado
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the john hughes coffee cup trick
The two men hit upon an agreement: [John] Hughes could take mornings to do whatever personal work he wanted, as long as he got his Burnett work done in the afternoon. Still, Hughes felt an ever stronger pull toward the Lampoon, and later admitted to Nolan that he sometimes flew to New York and back on the same day, entirely on Lampoon business, without his overseer’s knowledge—taking care (shades...
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