We had almost forgotten about James Atlas’s New York mag article on failure. The anti-depressants were finally working and we had just stopped sobbing into our chai lattes. Then Jack Shafer had to bring it up again:
The piece boils over with specificity about Atlas’ life—he writes of sobbing in front of his children at a showing of the treacly Mr. Holland’s Opus; he notes that he once worked at the New York Times; he names his son, Will; he names the scotch he drinks at a New York Rangers game (Dewar’s); he names the soda his editor drinks as he dumps him (Diet Coke); he names Saul Bellow’s sad-sack best friend (Isaac Rosenfeld).
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