Before triumphing as the Beltway’s favorite bad girl (Poppy Bush, ever the gentleman, said he used to laugh out loud at how devastatingly she skewered him), Maureen Dowd was a reporter. The Awl remembers her pioneering AIDS coverage. It also links to a terrific NYT magazine story about Manhattan nightlife in 1984. I hope she didn’t make up the quotes; they’re better than what Bret Easton Ellis conceived for Less Than Zero, his take on ealry eighties hedonism set in L.A.
