Blake Bailey Quotes
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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his…
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The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain…
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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the…
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in…
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To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open…
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The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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If possible, be funny.
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