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I said precisely that to Brooks and others in a small audience at Washington, DC’s Politics & Prose Bookstore on September 9, 1997, during a talk on my book Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream.

Brooks and I had a drink after my Politics & Prose talk.

The CEO of the generative-A.I. app Perplexity—which received a cease-and-desist letter from the Times last month asking it to stop using NYT prose for data-training purposes—offered to help the paper ensure that “essential coverage is available to all during the election” and requested that Sulzberger message him.

Look at this prose: “No final decision has been made and there is no sign that McCarthy is campaigning for the coveted role,” the New York Post wrote this week, “though one person said the Californian has shown openness to being part of a second Trump administration in some capacity.”

At the end of his article, Meyer urged his fellow Steinbeck scholars to “read Babb—if only to see for themselves the echoes of 'Grapes' that abound in her prose.”