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“It really is kind of fun , the way Fortune takes care of us.”
“What especially troubles me about the American case is overreach by the Executive branch, particularly when it occurs in the darkness.”
“His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker , Harpers , Esquire , Granta , and many other publications.”
“My editor at Viking, who had indulged me for decades, grew ever less enthusiastic the more of this book he read.”
“How did we get to September eleventh, and into how many feculent sloughs did we crawl from there?”
“I made him even stupider than I, and cheerfuller, physically hardier, nobler in his sincere search for America and as brave , ethical and mechanically gifted as his father.”
“The first part is, or means to be, a novel of ideas.”
“Or did true believers, such as my invented COULSON, facilitate hostilities with criminal zeal?”
“Matthew is not Lisa, although I have clothed some of his wretchedness in her sorrows.”
“Recently several of my fellow judges on a literary panel declined to read submissions that were more than two hundred pages long.”
“Available from Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing.”
“For instance, did the Soviets invade Afghanistan out of (a) fear of Muslim insurgency, (b) Iran-cognizant Realpolitik or (c) lust for a port on the Persian Gulf?”
“What about that hundred-page essay at the end about the insignificance of heroes in relation to the historical current they ride?”
“Once I stopped laughing, it occurred to me that since the file was so viciously unfair, and they had already detained me twice, my freedom might be at risk.”
“He furthermore reminded me (as he had been doing ever since 1986) that the cost of paper was rising.”
“Worse yet, he informed me, the various fonts I had been deploying for years while constructing my visual grammar for A Table for Fortune (typewriterish for spook reports, italic for newscast, etcetera) could no longer be permitted to the likes of me.”
“That 2010 “drone strike in Yemen, which was supposed to take out an al-Qaeda nest but instead terminated the Deputy Governor of Marib Province” really happened (see the source-notes).”