A good interview with the brilliant Hank Stuever of the Post. Hank is the ideal of the Style section sharpened to a fine point and always an engaging, surprising read.
The hook for the interview is his Deep Throat piece, which seems impossibly wise for something probably written in an hour. Best part, of course: “It was possible, our ancestors inform us, to go to a bar and tell a girl that you were a reporter for The Washington Post and she might go home with you. That was part of the allure of the Deep Throat culture — the reporter as chick magnet. (Now she would tell you that she doesn’t really ever look at the paper. Or worse, she only looks at it online.)”