Power is like heroin. One little bit and you’re hooked. For some people, at least. We can grasp how dictators go mad – the paranoia, the real and deadly threats posed by enemies, the lack of honest feedback, the lady bodyguards with benefits, the obsequiousness from everyone around. What amuses me more is those people […]| SovietMen
Thirteen years ago, I put on a Victorian Suit and a false beard and I read Dickens' prompt copy of A Christmas Carol at New York Public Library. It was a wonderful, sold out performance, introduced by Molly Oldfield, who told us all about Dickens's reading routine.| Neil Gaiman's Journal