“Unveiling Secrets: What Columbus Never Knew About His Journey”
“Isn’t this great, Cathy?” he yelled over the din. “Being in the Big Apple, the music, everyone having a good time—it doesn’t get better than this.”
Maybe it could, starting now. Ten years of living here and my own American dream — of getting published, of having an apartment with corners to turn, of not living hand-to-mouth — has started to curdle. I wouldn’t be the first or the last to pillow-talk my way into a meeting at Simon & Schuster. And if I were to tell my dad I’d had a date with Philip Roth, he’d say, “That’s exactly who you deserve, Cathy: someone as bright and interesting as you are.”
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