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Story summary
- Willem Dafoe stars as postal worker Ed Saxberger in “Late Fame,” which opens Aug. 7 in New York and Aug. 14 in Los Angeles.
- Saxberger, who published the 1979 poetry book “Way Past Go,” is recruited by NYU graduate Wilson Meyers to join the “Enthusiasm Society.”
- The Society meets at a LaGuardia Place café and opposes vulgarization.
- Saxberger agrees to write a poem for actress Gloria’s anti-capitalist reading after becoming attracted to her.
