Joy Williams (American writer)

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“Marilynne Robinson says she read Moby-Dick when she was nine. I wish I could say such a thing! I was reading horse books, dog books, the Baba Yaga stories in {{w|Jack and Jill (magazine)|Jack and Jill magazine}}: my {{w|library card}} was my most treasured possession, but I didn’t read with much discrimination.”

“In July of 1995, the Copa, along with the chic restaurant Antonia's, burnt to the ground in the traditional suspicious, middle-of-the-night fire. Built in 1917 as a movie theater, it had been wearily showing Deep Throat for a decade before it was transformed in the '80's into a glossy gay cruise bar.”