In a recent eXile, the editor [Ames] wrote about how he dealt with his pregnant girlfriend when she refused to get an abortion. But after that, Ames and Taibbi seemed certain I wanted to shut the paper down, censor them and oppose free speech generally. When “The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia” came out, the memoir had a few more surprises in store. Lally’s charred [corpse] through the dust-and-fly-infested streets of our newspaper for all to have a laugh,” Ames wrote. I didn’t think about Taibbi and Ames for years; my self-esteem remained intact and my life moved along.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2017 21:50 UTC