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Fame

The long jolt of public opinion

by Oliver Wendell Holmes,

On celebrity, genius, and would-be novelists

The Consolations of Vanity

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Fatted calf

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Deus ex machina

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The Chairman, to the bored

by Frank Sinatra,

Tama’s mama

by Phyllis Janowitz,

Barbara Walters’s theater of revenge

by Mark Crispin Miller,

Nymphs and satyrs

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Notes on fame

by John Lahr,

The machinery of celebrity provides the faith Americans seek

The assassin as celebrity

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Literary fame et al.

by Frederick Exley,

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