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The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.” ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

In his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally’s tells us that his heart has been broken many times over—but it ...