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“New York is a city for the rich by the rich, and all of us work at the mercy of rich people and their projects…If you work at any publication in this town, you work for a millionaire or billionaire. In some ways, that’s functional, and it works as a feudal society. But what’s happened now, related to that, is that culture has dried up and blown away: The Weimar-resurgence baloney is hideous; the rock-band scene is completely unexciting; the young artists have a little more juice, but they’re just bleak intellectual kids; and I am really dissatisfied with young fiction writers…Not a week goes by I don’t want to quit this job, because staring at New York this way makes me sick.”

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