HOW TO MAKE A FRENCH EXIT in The Believer

in the latest issue of The Believer (which has a dope cover by Zeke Peña inspired by a photograph of Jesús Manuel Mena Garza) i’ve a bit of instructional prose :

This is how you leave a party without saying goodbye—also known, with differing connotations, as the Gypsy fade, the Irish leave, or filer à l’anglaise. It’s easy. It’s like Allen Carr’s The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. You can’t give a précis for enchantment, but here’s my paraphrase of Carr’s method: stop smoking… [read more]

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Jesús Manuel Mena Garza
Zeke Peña