Florence (tourists not pictured). My trip to the Venice Film Festival was, as it happens, my first time in Italy. It was difficult, in a way, not to see it…
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Remember this guy? In the early spring of 2001 I got a call from Tom Bissell, who was then an editor at Henry Holt. I had been referred to Tom…
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From the end credits of A Girl's Best Friend, Henri Pachard, 1981 My Life In Pornography is the title of a memoir I completed in the summer of 2012. Its…
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Art Pepper, the jazz saxophonist, wrote, with his wife Laurie Pepper, one of the great books about art and addiction, his memoir Straight Life. After describing his childhood, and his…
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