I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I finished it. It is a remarkable document, I think, in its generosity to its subject and its readers. It would be wrong to call it a love letter, but it is a portrait of an artist by an artist who respected him as a human being, and so, whether a passage describes him at his very best and kindest or his most destructive and infuriating, it is inflected all the same with a deep love and acceptance. The book is told in novella style from Mallouk’s point of view, filtered through the prose of her close friend, Clement. It is a portal to a private world that existed between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Suzanne Mallouk, his longtime girlfriend. That’s how it was.” This book is like that the whole way through. She was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014 and now works with the Clinton. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. He is describing a woman he loved in New York, and before he gets to the sad parts, he says this: “You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is an American writer and global health advocate. There is a passage in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father that I think of from time to time.
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