Andrei Codrescu | The Sun Magazine

Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu lives in New Orleans, teaches at Louisiana State University in nearby Baton Rouge, and edits Exquisite Corpse, a quarterly journal of the avant-garde.

— From October 1987
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When they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I answered: “An explorer!” It was quite the thing for a boy of ten, but imagine being stuck with it. Fashions change but one thing does not: all adults want little boys to be something else besides little boys.

October 1987
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