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September 5, 2017 by Vickie Lester

“It’s about a lazy prince. Nobody thinks he’s got a brain. All he does is drink and joke around and hang out with lowlifes in the bar. Even his father thinks he’s a zero. Then all of a sudden, he has to go to war. Nobody thinks he can hack it. He’s had all the money and he’s never had any responsibility. So they’re convinced he’s a loser. And you can’t rely on him.” “Are you joking?” said Harry in […]

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“A little laughter in grim times is better than Xanax.” an interview with author, William Kuhn

July 23, 2017 by Vickie Lester

I had the happy chance to meet William Kuhn through his bookshelves before I met him in person. In 2015 my husband was working on a film in Boston, and after subletting the author’s apartment, he wrote to me, “Come here and stay, you will love it.” On a humid hot night at the beginning of August I arrived. The Mister walked to the train station to meet me, and we bumped my suitcase a few short blocks over cobbled […]

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Life, Literature, London, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Publishing, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: A little laughter in grim times is better than Xanax, author, British, Henry James, historian, I love being in London, interview, monarchy, Prince Harry Boy to Man, The Art of Fiction, William Kuhn

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