This Talking Is Only Bravado: There's an Aging Communist at Café Tropical Who Wears a Beret All the Time

Cord - I love your writing. This is the best thing I’ve read in a very long time. The irony is I wanted to ask you, as a former NYer and current LAer, how you liked LA comparatively, as I am currently thinking of leaving Brooklyn for Los Feliz.

This is perfect, thank you. 

cordjefferson:

I’ve never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well-read, and yet every day I’d wake up in my 10 by 10 room, its window looking out over my building’s rusted trashcans, and somehow think I’d achieved another great…

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    Somewhere among E.B. White...Adam Gopnik there is Cord Jefferson:
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    Very nicely done.
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