molly peterson

In this case, a word. Someone should invent a word for when someone is more famous to you than their empiric famosity quotient should yield. My ur-example is Julian Barnes. He’s not necessarily famous on the street in the United States. Probably, when you get down to it, not famous on the street in London. But if x represents a numeric value of his fame, when I saw him walking past my desk at Morning Edition in Washington DC, I