Saturday, March 06, 2021

Stranger than fiction …

 TK Newsletter: The Appalling Death Of An Extremely Strange Genius - TK News by Matt Taibbi. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Gogol, my childhood hero, died 169 years ago today, on March 4, 1852. Fitting for him, it might have been the most preposterously horrific act of self-destruction in literary history.

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