"It’s never been such a good time to be a crook. In what other country of laws does one enjoy so much freedom to defraud one’s government and fellow citizens without having to worry about cops showing at the door? Small-time crooks sooner or later end up in the slammer, but our big-time con artists, as we’ve come to learn, are now regarded as the untouchables, too well-heeled and powerful to lock up."
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Poets from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesPoets from New HampshireTranslators from the United StatesPoets from Serbia
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"A Thieves' Thanksgiving," New York Review of Books, November 26, 2014
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