![]() ![]() ![]() What Boyle understands-has always understood-is that the more specific one is in a piece of writing, the more universal that piece of writing becomes. Just look at the time and place in which we find ourselves, where during the last two-and-a-half years a different pandemic has overwhelmed us, and only a few weeks ago, the novelist Salman Rushdie was attacked and nearly killed by a zealot who may have been seeking to fulfill the fatwa that the ayatollah himself, now long dead, declared in February 1989. If you think such efforts come off as dated, you might want to think again. See the button there…? Well, maybe it is a little fuzzy, AP is the pits, but that’s a ‘Go Yankees!’ button I gave him myself.” ![]() “Hard Sell,” published in 1987, is narrated by a PR guy who has been hired to soften the image of the Ayatollah Khomeini. ![]() “There was no exchange of body fluids on the first date,” it begins. His story “Modern Love,” written during the height of the AIDS pandemic, features a germaphobe who insists on “a full-body condom” before any intimacy. ![]()
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