One reason to like T.C. Boyle

[paolo beneforti]

Jay Herzog wrote:
>  An author's public persona is bupkis to me. It's all between the
>  covers.

same thesis in "Contre Saint-Beuve" by Marcel Proust
Proust -->Swann character in "A la recherche du temps perdu"
Swann character --> l'affaire Dreyfus and french antisemitism in the end 
of XIX century.
antisemitism --> not _bupkis_ indeed.

;)