Stephen Rodrick’s profile is online.

Some tidbits:

MP on Joe Avigdor Lieberman: “He is a vulgar Russian Jew with an emphasis on the Russian.”

On Norman Mailer, who once tried to punch Peretz after the New Republic gave him a bad review: ““I would have laid him out, but he was drunk.”

On John Kerry: “He would say I sucked up to Al [Gore], and I would say Al is a much more interesting guy.”

On Lillian Hellman: “I think she was in love with my wife.”

On former New Republic editor, and rabid anti-Clintonite, Michael Kelly: “I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but he was an awful, obsessed man.”

Peretz is nothing if not quotable….

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P.S. Gawker blasts both the Times and New York mag for not directly addressing the question of Peretz’s sexuality. It does seem odd. (The omissions, not the sexuality.) How can you “profile” someone and explore what makes him the person he is, at a late-life time of crisis, who just went through a divorce that both articles do mention, without considering the role that (many people think) homosexuality has played?