The latest New Yorker has a terrific article on the late mystery writer Patricia Highsmith. Pat, a closet lesbian, used her gender preference in just one of her 20-odd books, The Price of Salt, published under a pseudonym in 1952. It's now a movie, called Carol, starring Rooney Mara (as the young Patricia) and Cate Blanchett (as Carol, her married
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