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Walter Cronkite, the movie `Broadcast News,' and Merry Kerry: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/broadcast-ne…

You should subscribe. You know you want to: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/new-finds

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Tom Wolfe had a good source who helped him out on his Esquire article on San Francisco’s Chinatown. And they stayed in touch through the years. This one source had a nickname for Tom, and used it in correspondence. He called him ``Chai Long.’’ How would this be translated?

Tom Wolfe's thoughts on fiction in general and I Am Charlotte Simmons in particular: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/charlotte

More on the novel I am Charlotte Simmons, and what Tom Wolfe considered political correctness's greatest achievement: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/tom-wolfes-s…

Well, now, would you just look at that. A book contract. My, my.

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Everyone talks about Tom Wolfe's books: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/heigh-ho

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Okay, I know it's like 35 degrees right now, but by the time I head out for this festive lunch temps will be higher, and that's it, by God, no overcoat, just khakis and blazer.

Meta, as they say: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/the-book

Why the Internet upvotes neo Nazi pseudo historians. This week's David Frum Show with Andrew Roberts youtube.com/watch?v=3sa_a9…

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I'm really enjoying David Streitfeld 's new biography of Larry McMurtry, Western Star. Excellent, stylish work.

Thought on The Tom Wolfe Papers: letsgoforabeer.substack.com/p/the-papers

So let's get this straight : the victory ( " never seen before " ) Trump will claim consists of 1) Iran still keeping its HEU thus able to develop nukes 2) act as Hormuz extortioner levying tolls it didnt before (92 billion a year) 3) theocratic tyranny more not less entrenched;

What sane person does that?

Well, I do believe it is time to break out the spectator Sperries for today's trip to The Papers.