vouchsafe

Jonathan Franzen offered to “vouchsafe my secrets,” discussing religion, women and when we might expect the next novel at the Festival of Books.

“And it’s my first time at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. I suppose, given the circumstances, it’s OK to vouchsafe my secrets or at least one secret about this book.”

And requiring that staff safeguard themselves and others is not “socialism”; it’s a necessity to vouchsafe the public welfare.

We shall know more about them all, in half an hour, from you, than Miss Fairfax would have vouchsafed in half a year.”

But even under the supposed best of circumstances, white artists vouchsafing a form of authenticity by inviting people of color to augment their work can look a little patronizing.