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Is it a curse? Or a benediction?
Writers, public intellectuals, savants can become known for one epigram, one sentence, one paragraph. In Janet Malcolm’s case, it’s the opening lines of her 1990 book, The Journalist and the Murderer:
The Postmodernist and the Drowning Man
For Janet Malcolm, there was no ultimate truth—only endless interpretation. Except when her own credibility was on the line
January 21, 2023
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