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February 01, 2005

Oh, Now Isn't This Interesting?
(Deborah Solomon, Take Notes!)

by Ron Hogan

underminer.jpgBoris Kachka (New York) interviews monologuist Mike Albo and writing partner Virginia Heffernan, co-authors of The Underminer, a novelistic study of "the best friend who casually destroys your life."

[Albo]: The very first time we came up with the idea, I was living with Virginia, and she told me a female friend of hers had just undermined her: "She told me, 'You know, I don’t really want to be in this war between--'"

[Heffernan]: "Between you and Sofia and those guys." I didn't realize that all these forces were marshaled against me! And she was passing it off as being really careful. So I just cried myself to sleep that night.

photo: Jeremy Liebman

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