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“Every reader, starting from childhood, draws his own map of the world of letters. There is liable to be some outside guidance here and there, naturally. Certain landmarks are supplied to us, say in English class. But teachers aren’t found only in school. As a kid, my chief literary mentor was the rock critic Lester Bangs”

Terrific New Yorker article on the legendary writer

Photograph: Chris Stein on Dangerous Minds

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. - Lester Bangs, Almost Famous 2000

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