»Papst empfängt Muslime.«

»Unbefleckt?«

»The office was chaos. "You walked in and it looked like a fan had spread papers over everything," recalls Minot. It was that glorious and long-ago time when people smoked cigarettes; Luc Sante rolled his own. Silvers had a brass stand-alone ashtray filled with butts. The furniture was secondhand–not shabby-chic but shabby.«

Das New York Magazine in einem Langstück über die New Review of Books und deren Herausgeber Robert Silvers und die kürzlich verstorbene Barbara Epstein.

Die Lakonie des Alltags.