Despite His Trademark Pessimism, David Rakoff Was Hopeful and Resilient
Remembering the essayist and "This American Life" contributor, who died this week at 47.
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Remembering the essayist and "This American Life" contributor, who died this week at 47.
"Tax day. Perhaps a sense of relief made me eat more, but I’d have gorged just as much had I been facing an audit."
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Despite gentrification and Donald Trump and the Mets' record, the city hasn't been completely ruined for Rakoff yet.
So they played in our boardroom, drank our beverages, and discussed the extreme gayness of the cast of ‘Jackass.’