They were speaking to each other with tinkling officiousness, like two administrators filling out a form together.
‘Well, if you really feel like that, then you need to get your fellow employees together and implement some kind of direct action.’
‘I don’t even know what that is.’
Over their toast and coffee, Levi’s father explained the principles of direct action as it was practised between 1970 and 1980 …
I need you to appreciate that I have been placed in an extremely invidious situation
[...] He had offered them a Rembrandt who was neither a rule breaker nor an original but rather a conformist; he had asked them to ask themselves what they meant by ‘genius’ and, in the perplexed silence, replaced the familiar rebel master of historical fame with Howard’s own vision of a merely com…
Awful pretty with those provocative schoolgirl’s bangs running into light brown waves of sumptuous hair, which curved over her left eye like Veronica Lake’s and continued all the way down to her miniature hips. For the life of him Jack could never figure out why women of a certain age cut off all t…
