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Several years ago, I punched a friend, Marc… I punched him, and said (something like), “don’t ever do that. Not when I’m around, and even when I am not.”
“No, no. Wait,” he said. “I am gay.” Marc had referred to someone as a “flaming faggot”. Sure, I was being a bit of a twat, but I was sincere. We were in London. It was the early 1990s, and I had over the years become (very) finely tuned to detect bigotry.
Fast forward a few months later. I am at Highbury (what was once the most sacred place in football don’t @me), we shouted abuse at Tottenham Hotspur fans. After the match, we went down the Nag’s Head for a pint. I overheard someone at a table refer to Spurs as those “@#$%&$% Yids”. I got back on my high horse, but a mate held me back: “No, that’s their nickname. Spurs call themselves ‘Yids’”. After that, I stopped hurling abuse (mainly football banter) at Spurs, because it just felt wrong to harangue a group of “Yids”. ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV January 31, 2011



we are told almost on a daily basis that publishing is a crisis. one of the things i like to talk about it is publishing seems to me perpetually in crisis and seems like publishers exaggerate in order to keep advances for authors about. [laughter] but to start at the beginning, you talk a bit about your father in france and his publishing venture that began as i understand it began publishing? the 50 years i have been in publishing if you want to talk about my father you go back one century which is a little more than people need to know about. and unfortunately, though, he eventually he joined the major publishing house of gally moore which was one the initial targets of the germans when they came in, and the german ambassador knew him extremely well and loved there for many years. they had figured that there were only two institutions that they needed to take over and control. one was the bank of france, and the other was galilee moore. they were told if they ....

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