Thank Goodness for Joan Acocella
Briefly

"Clang! Clang!" her essay on Martin Luther begins; that is the sound of the hammer nailing the Ninety-five Theses to the church.
Sarah Larson, who did transcription work for her back in the day, remembers Joan swanning out from her bedroom mid-afternoon-nap in nightgown and eye mask to intercept a message from Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Read at The New Yorker
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