I realize that if I were a real writer I would not do anything so uncool as this, but after a lifetime of aspiration, I have been quoted in the New Yorker. OK, it's the book blog, but it's still the New Yorker.
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10 comments:
that is wayyy cool.
And it is a rather flattering and full quote, too! Bravo!
Awesomeness, great paragraph too. Congratulations on a milestone!
Everyone thinks that is cool, even if they pretend that they don't. Felicitations!
Well, I am jealous. Not even Mad Magazine quotes me.
It is the FUCKING Nyorker.
Good job.
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Congrats! It is the outward-facing historian's dream...
Well done. I'm glad she quoted you at your most pointed and polemical, and that she let you have the last word.
and such the perfect quote, too!!!
Wonderful quote!
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