As A Writer, You Explore All Kinds

The Last Publicized Center Of American Writing Was Manhattan. Its Writers Became Known As The New York Intellectuals. With Important Connections To Publishing, And Universities, With Access To The Major Book Reviews, They Were Able To Pose As The Vanguard Of American Culture When They Were So Obsessed With The Two Joes--mccarthy And Stalin--that They Were To Produce Only Two Artists, Saul Bellow And Philip Roth, Who Left Town.

History Is The Story Of Warfare Between Secret Societies.

In Crash, You've Got A Pathological Cop Who At The End Justifies Police Brutality. He Tells The Naïve, Young Cop That You're Going To End Up The Same As Him. He's The Most Sympathetic Character In The Movie. So, The Naïve Cop Ends Up Murdering This Black Kid And Tries To Cover Up The Evidence. It Sort Of Justifies Police Brutality And The Planting Of Evidence Which Is What Happened In The O.j. Simpson Case.

I'm Sure That A Previous Generation Of Jews Who Published Radical Newspapers And Journals Would Be Critical Of [david] Simon's Projects. These Were Left Wingers Who Suffered Casualties In Some Of Bloodiest Strikes In American History.

I'm Beginning To Believe That Killer Illiteracy Ought To Rank Near Heart Disease And Cancer As One Of The Leading Causes Of Deathamong Americans. What You Don't Know Can Indeed Hurt You, And So Those Who Can Neither Read Nor Write Lead Miserable Lives, Like Richard Wright's Character, Bigger Thomas, Born Dead With No Past Or Future.