I met Barbra Streisand in August of 1960 a few hours after I arrived in New York from Los Angeles. My first apartment was in Greenwich Village at 16 Gay Street next door to the basement apartment made famous by Ruth McKenney in her memoir, “My Sister Eileen” which was…
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I don’t usually advise because: numero uno, I don’t want to pour cold water on anyone’s aspirations…and whatever I have to say is colored by my own experience, so it should be taken with a large rock crystal of salt firmly in hand, but… . I used to get called…
Illustration by Rockwell Kent RACHEL KUSHNER: I don’t think of sex as any more difficult to write about than any other human behavior. Writers fail or soar at anything. Everyone thinks about sex, engages in it. It’s the secret we all share. Just acknowledging its constant presence in people’s thoughts…