An Ode to America
You’re better than this, sweet land of liberty.
by James Parker
Dec 17, 2021
2 minutes
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“Pretty good nose you got there! You do much fighting with that nose?”
New Orleans, 1989. I’m standing on a balcony south of the Garden District, and a man—a stranger—is hailing me from the street. He looks like Paul Newman, if Paul Newman were an alcoholic housepainter. I don’t,
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