"In July of 1995, the Copa, along with the chic restaurant Antonia's, burnt to the ground in the traditional suspicious, middle-of-the-night fire. Built in 1917 as a movie theater, it had been wearily showing Deep Throat for a decade before it was transformed in the '80's into a glossy gay cruise bar."
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Joy Williams (American writer)
(born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and teacher of creative writing. She received in 1999 a , was elected in 2008 a member of the , and was awarded in 2021 a .
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