Strangers

"No, you are not a festering pustule on the back of humanity."

Yesterday I got a text from Joe–did I want to go to Manuel Betancourt’s book event at The Strand tomorrow night? I did. Manuel, who I knew from the Miss Manhattan reading long ago, has just released his new book Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies. At first I don’t know if I’ll make it, if my meeting will run long and the 26 minutes it takes to…