Donald Westlake and Me

By Douglas MacKinnon

Published September 14, 2016 1:40pm ET

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Donald Westlake and Me — “Words matter.” We hear that quite a bit these days—usually, in a negative connotation. When I was a child growing up in abject poverty and often homeless, words mattered to me more than I could ever adequately explain. Words offered my then-battered mind a much-needed escape from the endless dysfunction that was my childhood and […]

“Words matter.”

We hear that quite a bit these days—usually, in a negative connotation.

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