"David Chase, second- or third-generation ethnic Boomer with terrible parents, unlucky genes, whatever, but he's a sour kind of cynical American guy born at almost the exact ideal time to ride the crest of the apotheosis of American affluence, excess, by all rights should've partaken in this inherite"
"John Updike has been described as a "penis with a thesaurus," and his great character Rabbit Angstrom as being "a misogynist, and Updike likes that he is," but it may just be that he composed the most erotic scenes in American literary history."