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S3E4 | Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau)

The Paris Review

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My Father Wears a Fedora

My father is in his own way a fashion icon. He was one of the only black men to board Air Force One with Ronald Reagan. To this day, he will put on a fedora just to go to the grocery store. Over the years, my father has met all manner of Marianne's,. Sylvia's, Beatrice's. Women often older than him who begin as strangers and soon become guides, docents to the unknown.

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