Every page is a joy."—Sue Harrison, Self Magazine ". . . discerning, brightly written . . . Highly recommended."—Library Journal With a brand new author's introduction and a previously unpublished chapter. The inspiration for the Merchant Ivory film starring Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Hersh...
This was one of my mother’s favorite Willie Morris stories. Willie Morris, the onetime editor of Harper’s and best-selling author of the memoir North Toward Home had moved out to Bridgehampton after he’d left the literary life in New York. One of the main reasons my parents chose Bridgehampton ...
No matter the Zen of the ethnic group the wheel of fortune got you born into, dumb and poor was the universal formula for tough. And he had to be tough because it’s hard to be hard when your name is Jeffrey Ziegfeld. Didn’t exactly make the kids on the block shit their pants when someone said, “W...