The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Long Goodbye
Category: Fiction
Billie’s introduction to Andrew and Isabel’s parents took place that night in the kitchen while she was doctoring a can of baked beans with onions and ketchup, topping some iceberg lettuce with Seven Seas Italian, and grilling some hot dogs to feed her new charges. Billie didn’t know if it…
On a member of the Resistance helping a nightclub owner escape occupied Paris: …We talked about the war. About the scenes we’d witnessed and couldn’t get out of our minds… I wish our conversation could have been recorded. I found it intensely interesting: the jabbering of two women high on…
This is a picture of me and the Kid a couple of years ago. The Kid is doing well at the Royal Academy of Design in Antwerp and I am thrilled to say some of his designs this year have also been selected for the annual show… He has been…
We are so much closer to the 18th century than the gap of years, fashion choices and sanitary inventions suggests… via the Last Post, another side of actress, Pippa Rathborne Clarissa is an enormous book of approximately 970,000 words – the author himself was worried about the length. The…
Rosalind Russell wrote an autobiography called, “Life is a Banquet”. It used to sit on my grandmother’s bookshelf and I remember picking it up when I was around twelve and sitting down one afternoon and becoming completely engrossed. The book, like the author; is candid, genteel, and witty. Buy it,…