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High life

Writing my High Life column made a man of me

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

As Cole Porter might have said, only second-rate people go on and on about their inner lives. Self-analysis, according to Cole, is the twin of self-promotion. Yet in this 10,000th issue of the world’s oldest and best weekly, and in my 43rd year of writing High Life, I have to admit to a bit of both of the above.

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