If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual...
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.