Monthly Archives: April 2006
Muriel Spark, 1918-2006
From A Far Cry from Kensington, here are Mrs. Hawkin’s reflections upon the upper and the ordinary classes: I will say, now, that I learned a lot about upper class habits while I was with Mackintosh & Tooley. In the end I concluded that it was better to belong to the ordinary class. For the [...]
Review of Fever
Here’s a link to my review in Newsday of the new Peggy Lee biography by Peter Richmond.
To Add to the Things-I-Didn’t-Know-I-Wanted-Until-Someone-Made-Them-Up List