“Woodward is hardly trying to cripple a presidency. (He's already done that, right?) But like his fellow permanent Washingtonians, he thinks it only fitting to put Clinton in his place.”
“In America, poetic truths have real-life consequences, and Mailer is one of the few American intellectuals to perceive this fact as both fundamental and fundamentally good”
"Lester ennobled the ludicrous inner life of pop fans by telling the truth about it — by discerning that inner lives, and not music, were what pop music was about"
