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Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City (DeDe)
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Many of the great hairdos of bygone ages, I’d found, survived to this day in isolated pockets of Pittsburgh.
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In Pittsburgh, perhaps more than anywhere else in our languid nation, a barmaid does not care.
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There were swollen pink buds on the camellia bushes, beaded with rain, and I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox. I put my hand on the Swiss Army Knife in my pocket and looked out at the morning with a caffeine quiver of hope in my spine and at the tips of my fingers.
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In Pittsburgh, even the cicadas are industrial.
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“It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?” -Donna Tartt, The Secret History.
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The "Games" Player: Novelist's own story is a return to NYC →
My girl Sarah Gardner Borden in today’s Daily News.
Gary Shteyngart in a Brooklyn Heights Cougar Den →
Sarah Gardner Borden, author of Games to Play After Dark, makes a very charming cameo in Gary Shteyngart’s book trailer for the Super Sad True Love Story paperback. (She flirts with Paul Giamatti with aplomb.)
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