Some of my friends thought I was creepy. Some thought the stunt was brilliant. I was just irritated at our local literato.
. I’m from a Texan Jewish family who, by the time I was born, had quietly struggled for five generations to be fully accepted by a state that once belonged to the Confederacy. I’d felt put off by the casual, Southern-WASP machismo and violence in Cormac’s work. Yet I was transfixed by the deep beauty of his language. “What does a writer owe to the world?” I asked myself. “Nothing! Nothing at all but to write.
Still, I thought, the most famous literato in America was sucking his mojo—his descriptions of the landscape, the cowboy English, the Mexican Spanish, the horses!—from the borderlands. Yet he contributed nothing to his borderland community’s library. He was practically a natural resource, but he was going to waste. Could we utilize him for the commonweal without making demands on his time?I lived ten minutes from his house, a dirty-white adobe shaped like an indigenous, Southwestern bread oven.
Certified letter from Rent-A-Car, warning that he’s had the car for a month and if he doesn’t return it he will be charged with criminal embezzlementSolicitation, Republican National Committee 1996 sustaining membership“for people who are tired of liberal misinformation and propaganda”
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