Is there a more horrifying prospect than to have a woman you had an unreturned high school crush on end up making a movie about you? Ben Greenman (who edited my college newspaper, although a few years before I got there) had that happen to him, and wrote a great piece about seeing his life played out on the big screen. (The article’s a couple years old; found via an interview with Ben [now a New Yorker editor, McSweeney’s contributor, newly published author, and new dad] at the excellent themorningnews.org.)

09 November 2001



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