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American writer with a scurrilous wit who sought out political irony, absurdity and hypocrisy
The writer and satirist finds spiritual fulfilment in his scrapyard animal sculptures
The concept of ‘truthiness’, when conviction is prized over facts, evolved in George W Bush era
‘I was an English major – I saw English and thought, I speak that!’
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