There's something comforting yet electrifying about fiction that transforms the famous into flesh.
Joseph Mitchell first brought fame to Mazie Phillips in his 1940 New Yorker profile. Now, Jami Attenberg has given her a rich, complicated history.
"I read the way one might stroll. … I feel myself to be a sacred trespasser…"
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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