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This giving-up-smoking stuff is really fantastic. I can do everything except make a collage, go to the Troubadour, and lose weight. Although today I’ve decided not to eat anything outrageous, at least till I get back to 130 lbs. Trying to hold yourself together when you’re falling apart all over th…

So Joe came over after the show. We talked, smoked, drank, drank, drank, smoked, and it was bigger than both of us. Joe, being from a liberal family from Berkeley and an arch radical, suffered from typical Catholic schoolboy pangs of guilt, and had some superstition in his mind that if he didn’t ac…

There is, however, a world of wealth that makes my family look plebeian. I became a connoisseur of this world in my twenties when I became a high-end art dealer, and doing so utterly skewered my reality. My vocabulary changed. Words like vernissage, fractional gifts, chandelier bids, freeports, and…

[...] Apart from the blank and unsullied aspect lent by its newness, the apartment was mediocre in every way. The appliances were shiny but midgrade, the floors were of a synthetic wood-like substance rather than real wood, the windows creaked, the sinks were raised basins that spilled water everyw…

How liberating it had been to have a partner willing at the drop of a hat to rise to the challenge of being egregiously, unapologetically, absurdly wrong, and still press the point. The sheer intensity of their fights testified to their uncommon compatibility as a couple. Surely such acrimony would…