All This Is That: John Updike: what is a "she-male?"

Saturday, April 09, 2011

John Updike: what is a "she-male?"

Marc Alan DiMartino posted this funny letter from John Updike to the manager of the (now defunct) Gotham Book Mart (which was one of my favorite bookstores in NYC). The manager has sent Updike a copy of a book wrapped up in a piece of the Village Voice personals section. . .

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