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“Clem! Where you been hidin’? Ain’t seen you in a month o’ Sundays!” “Tell ya what Emmett, you buy me a Pabst an’ I’ll tell ya ’xactly where I been.… More
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.@Andrew_Solomon quotes Salman Rushdie from the opening speech of the 2014 @PENworldvoices Festival: "In a truly free democratic society, all citizens must feel free all the time, whether they end up on the winning or losing side of an election..." #StandWithSalman (1/2)
At @nypl and around the globe, readers and writers are standing in solidarity with @SalmanRushdie and celebrating his tireless advocacy for freedom of expression and the plight of imperiled writers around the globe. #StandWithSalman
"Many, many years ago, when the sea was clean and the night was safe, there was a road called Warden Road (not called that anymore) in a neighborhood called Breach Candy (still called that, more or less)..." (1/2)