JoAnn Wypijewski, who writes The Nation’s “Carnal Knowledge” column, has been traveling the country to research a book on America in a time of crackup. Contact her at jwyp at earthlink.net.
It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.
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