“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” “Call me Ishmael.” “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Allow me to nominate The Journalist and the Murderer‘s opening line for inclusion in the pantheon: Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. She’s talking, really, […]
Don’t talk to cops. Or reporters. And never, ever, ever Mike Wallace.
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm