Summary

Chapter 29 is titled “Timesman.” Moehringer sent clips to the New York Times and received a phone call at work offering a position as a copy boy with the opportunity to work up. They need more samples of his writing. He sent everything he had but went to Yale to see if he can find anything else from the archives. He encountered Sidney who wished him luck. He found nothing significant in the archives but copied everything, then went drinking with friends. They were attacked and Moehringer got beat up, then slept on a friend's couch before going to the Times office. He intended to leave the clips but was sent upstairs to see a woman named Marie. He imagined everyone thought he was “a deranged reader” with a black eye and split lip, and he felt he would “have traded ten years of...