Malcolm James Macdonald

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    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. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    —Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)

    The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)