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Richard Meltzer: A Whore Just Like The Rest (Da Capo)

Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000

"I'M FAT, I drink too much. I feel grey, I feel old, I am old. This could be my last book," is how writer, critic, poet, philosopher and one-time Blue Oyster Cult lyricist Richard Meltzer introduces himself in this latest collection of his writings.

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