Dr. Zizmor’s Big Idea
“So, when you’re not here at Barney Greengrass serving smoked fish, you’re a writer, eh? That’s interesting. Interesting. We should talk. I have a big idea. We’ve got to talk, yeah.” These weren’t the first words Dr. Jonathan Zizmor had ever spoken to me, but they marked a transition in our relationship from my simply being his server to something more. I was now, in his eyes, fully human. Not just a guy in whites. Not just a man moving plates. For one thing, I was a writer. And for another, I was a writer for whom he might have a use. It’s likely that Dr. Zizmor assumed that I already knew about him, before he knew this something about me, for Zizmor was an iconic and very public New... Read more...
