“Did you read Beryl Markham’s book, “West with the Night”? …She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an...
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Few events are as dramatic or as controversial as the spectacle of the bullfight. With a pedigree dating back to the blood-sports of ancient Rome, the deadly dance between bull and matador practiced today in Iberia and Latin America evokes awe in some and outrage in others. Beyond dispute, however, is the historical importance...
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