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    The Treatment

    James Wolcott: Lucking Out

    Elvis Mitchell talks to Vanity Fair cultural critic James Wolcott about his new memoir, Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York.

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    By Elvis Mitchell • Nov 23, 2011 • 28m Listen

    The journalistic musings of

    James Wolcott have long graced the pages of everything from Esquire to Harper's to the New Yorker. His latest book,

    Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York

    ," is a vivid account of his transition from small town Maryland to the gritty, grimy streets of 70's Manhattan.

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      Elvis Mitchell

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