Of Didion
3 of 7 books I love. Others have described the Madison Avenue Bookshop, where I worked part-time from 1975 to 1992, as a salon out of Stendahl, Maupassant, or Proust. I’d have said Fitzgerald, with copious doses of John O’Hara – a copious Fitzgerald with better dialogue. A bastion of the East Coast establishment, in […]
The Coptic Gospels
4 of 7 books I love. My Coptic wedding Bible, bequeathed me on converting and marrying in St. Mary’s Coptic Church on Zamalek by my Abuna Yousef. I always tell the story of Yousef anointing and baptising me in the church’s crypt. During a perfunctory catechism class we got to like each other and I […]
Prelude to Love by Brooke Carpenter
5 of 7 books I love: A Greenwich Village Romance. Inscribed by Jim Gardner, writing as Brooke Carpenter (NY: Kim Publishing Co., 1978) a.k.a. Love In A Mist – “It’s better to have loved in a mist than never to have loved at all.” Pg. 7 – “Gazing out the window into Manhattan, Valery found […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library