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The joy of Harrison Scott Key

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Mar 30, 2021
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Harrison Scott Key. That’s him on the right.

A friend in media texted me today: “I’m starting to feel so dark and hopeless about this country that it’s paralyzing.”

Yeah, me too. Which means it’s time to take out Harrison Scott Key’s 2015 memoir The World’s Largest Man and re-read it. It is the funniest non-fiction book I’ve ever read. HSK grew up in Mis…

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