True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen
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It's a job. Somebody has to note the first cookoo of spring.
TL;DR: the CIA recruited people in the 1950s.
I’ve always been fascinated with how governments operate their clandestine operations. This particular article felt more like an expositional adventure than informative.
I like to think of the coffee and wine drunk to write all those artists manifestos the French intellectuals insist on publishing, all paid for by the almighty US dollar.
"the short reign of Pippin IV" by John Steinbeck (1957) is an amusing work about euro communism, royalty, youth culture and the american fascination with postwar france.
I would be very disappointed if it turns out "Shakspear et Cie" was in fact, part of this.
They basically write their own article about the subject of the book, in which one of the notable things that has happened recently is that the book came out.
"neurotic, high functioning oxbridge reject seeks rich older man to predate, future matrimony possible if you can satisfy my need for Proust reading and cake"