Rachel Cohen Weaves the Kind of Biography That Brings Us Together

Her profoundly imagined stories about encounters between notables of American culture can best be described as a work of wonder. As you read, you may muse about what is made up, and that is where the fun begins.

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Norman Mailer, right, with journalist Sakari Määttänen at New York City, 1969. Via Wikimedia Commons

‘A Chance Meeting: American Encounters’
By Rachel Cohen
NYRB Classics, 416 Pages

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