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Infidels,
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evaporation of 4 million [people] who believe in this crap [the
Christian "rapture of the saints"] would leave the world
a better place."
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Andrei Codrescu
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Andrei
Codrescu is a Jewish Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist,
screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio.
Codrescu left
Romania to escape from the communist dictatorship. After time
in Italy he emigrated to the United States in 1966, where he immediately
sought out Allen Ginsberg and was part of the East Village art
scene. In 1981, he became a naturalized citizen of the United
States. He is an editor of the defunct online journal The
Exquisite Corpse, and is a MacCurdy Distinguished Professor
of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Codrescu
lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Codrescu's
coverage of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 for National Public
Radio was critically acclaimed. He was featured in the film Road
Scholar which won a 1995 Peabody Award. He reigned as King of
the Krewe du Vieux for the 2002 New Orleans Mardi Gras season. |
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