Satire
New York Has Never Heard of You
A note on when this happens: it doesn't, not in any one decade. This is a composite New York, built from five decades laid on top of each other without apology — Nizer's courtroom and an inbox marked URGENT, a hunger strike and a Valium prescription, a rotary phone and a subpoena delivered by email. History finished with these four men a long time ago. It never bothered to also give them a consistent chronology, and neither will this.
THE GREATEST NEURO-ONCOLOGIST IN THE WORLD
A Case History in Unverified Greatness
I reinvented myself shortly after breakfast.
One moment, I was an ordinary man living in Atlanta.
The next, I realized that I was perhaps the greatest neuro-oncologist the world had ever produced.
I had not yet been recognized.