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@newyorker @aaww / author of 'stay true’ (sept 2022 on @doubledaybooks) and hopefully another book (202?) and ‘a floating chinaman (2016)
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An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre

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Where did the promise go wrong? In Jonestown, where the feeling of destruction was detectable in the atmosphere, Naipaul realized that he needed to go to California to comprehend what had happened. “Iowa,” he writes, “does not, as a rule, attract the vagrant and the restless. Its neat farms and lush meadows discourage fantasy.” Naipaul remained fascinated with what kinds of visions drew the dispossessed toward messiah-like figures. What dangers lived inside these exuberances?
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Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”

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I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In 2003, it seemed that every other song on the radio was built on the Jamaican producer Steven (Lenky) Marsden’s backing track, named after the Hindu festival of lights and instantly recognizable for its jubilant handclaps, surging, feinting bass line, and stuttering drums.
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The Curious Career of “the American Dream”

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James Truslow Adams was born in Brooklyn in 1878, the son of a struggling Wall Street broker who had himself been born in Caracas, Venezuela. Adams grew up with a sense of fallen expectations and diminished fortunes: his family history was filled with high-living bankers and merchants engaged in international ventures, but by the time he was a child that prosperity had ebbed away. His early career was respectable; he learned bookkeeping and typing, eventually joining a brokerage house.
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