About two weeks from now a book will be published that hadn't even been written at the time, earlier this year, when certain literary snobs were claiming to have read it.
The book, "I, Libertine", by Frederick R. Ewing, will be published as a 35-cent paperpack by Ballantine - whose boss, Ian Ballantine, is playing it straight, and who told me that if I wrote a magazine article about the true circumstances he'd deny it...
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