The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
edited by Robert B. Silvers
A collection of twenty-seven accounts of friendships between some of the greatest artists and thinkers of our day. Among them are Isaiah Berlin on Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Hector Bianciotti on the death of Borges, Bruce Chatwin on a drunken evening with George Ortiz, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale on riding the subway with George Balanchine, Gore Vidal on Dawn Powell, and John Updike on Saul Steinberg.
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
edited by Barbara Epstein and Robert B. Silvers
Now in paperback. Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. “These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers’ appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends.” —Booklist More »
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire, edited by Charlotte Mosley
“Spanning half a century, bursting with wit and conviviality, In Tearing Haste collects the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire. The result is surely one of the great 20th-century correspondences.” —The Observer (UK) More »Related Items
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011)
by Colin Thubron
When Patrick Leigh Fermor died in June at the age of ninety-six, it seemed as if an era had come to an end. He was the last of a generation of warrior–travel writers that included the Arabian explorer Wilfred Thesiger, the controversial mystic Laurens van der Post, and the indefatigable Norman Lewis of Naples ‘44. Among these, Leigh Fermor shines with the élan and the effortlessly cultured glow of an apparent golden age. A war hero of polymathic exuberance, brilliant linguistic skills, and an elephantine memory, he was sometimes fancifully compared to Lord Byron or Sir Philip Sidney.
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