WINCHESTER ROOM
I have a friend who considers himself a connoisseur of steak — all steak. I have seen him fight through a $3.95 steak-cum-gristle patty at a truck stop, and watched with a mixture of horror and grudging admiration as he ordered and polished off a 32-ounce, $50 steak at a fancy white-tablecloth restaurant. He can…
PERSONAL VELOCITY
Four women: 1. Delia, 34. With “dirty blond hair and a heavy ass in blue jeans that looked just fine.” The daughter of a ’60s hippie who invited Seventh Day Adventists into his subsistence shack to rap with them, until one day an Adventist told him he was going to Hell, at which point Dad…
THE QUIET AMERICAN
Years before most Americans ever heard of Vietnam — a decade even before JFK fatefully escalated the rolls of U.S. “advisers” in that South China Sea nation — British writer Graham Greene spent some months there as a journalist. Greene, already an accomplished novelist, served as a correspondent in what was then called Indo-China. Soon…
