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I resented his social quietism: the fact that he went along with her project for us without complaint, and that he tolerated the way he was patronized by the men he drank with

Stuart himself was unable to adjudicate on the finished draft

I wanted to write a story that created just that mood—a pink hotel, Albinoni, ashes, and being unable to leave—in an exigent and dignified fashion.

Having already lost his East European bases to perestroika

In the early 1990s, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he’ d be the darling of Manhattan’s Upper West Side