Kurt Andersen and humorist Neal Pollack look at how artists twist the truth.
Neal Pollack is the greatest living American writer — according to the jacket copy he wrote for The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, a collection of his writings with an accompanying CD of his readings. Pollack has been published in The New York Times and McSweeney’s, and lauded in an episode of Dawson’s Creek.
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