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"On Monday, Kramerbooks and Afterwards was ordered to turn over
records of Lewinsky's purchases at the Dupont Circle bookstore (to Ken
Starr) ... One of several books Lewinsky bought there is 'Vox,' Nicholson
Baker's 1992 novel of yuppie phone sex between a man in a Western city
and a woman in the East" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The Washington
Post, March 25, 1998).
Says Nicholson Baker, "'Starr is mining for dirty data in an unprincipled
and illegal way. No bookstore should cave in to his intimidation. ... Starr
should get down on his kneepads and beg the country's pardon for undermining
the Constitution in this way'" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The
Washington Post, March 26, 1998).
William Ginsburg, Lewinsky's lawyer, "offered
up a few literary references of his own. 'We have now gone from invasion
of the right of privacy to 'Fahrenheit 451,' he told the Post's Peter Baker.
'This is 'Animal Farm.' This is 'Brave New World.' My God, they've got
the government in our bathroom" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The
Washington Post, March 25, 1998).
"Pat Schroeder, the former Colorado congresswoman
who now heads the Association of American Publishers, said, 'This is a
scenario that belongs in Baghdad or Tehran. I don't think the American
people could find anything more alien to our way of life or more repugnant
to the Bill of Rights than government intrusion into what we think or what
we read" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The Washington Post, March
26, 1998).
"President Clinton said in a Jan. 17 deposition
that Lewinsky had given him 'a book or two,' but he did not identify any
specific titles" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The Washington Post,
March 26, 1998).
"Starr's spokeswoman Deborah Gershman would
not comment" (Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer, The Washington Post,
March 25, 1998).
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