“Perhaps the trouble with literature in our time,” [Maxwell Perkins] wrote [Malcom] Cowley, “is that there aren’t as many rascals as there used to be.” [Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. Berg.]
Makes me wish I’d held onto The Brooklyn Follies to read Auster’s encomium on rascals again… The original meaning of rascal is “rabble.”
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