Lovely line

One occurrence in both online and real-life dating was an inexplicable talent on my part for attracting vegetarians. I am not a vegetarian.

- Emily Witt, LRB

OMFG

At a reading in the Ideas [?!!!!] section of New York's McNally Jackson bookstore last year, Geoff Dyer

was introduced by the novelist Sam Lipsyte, who described Mr. Dyer’s work as “gender-bending.” He meant genre. Their respective statures recalled Laurel and Hardy.

(From this otherwise very enjoyable piece by Emily Witt, in the New York Observer.*)


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* Even if she does misspell 'Bernhard'.