Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.
Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.
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“The bar-cafes? They’re finished. Twenty years ago, people would go in the morning before work for a coffee and a cigarette. And now, it’s over. Young people don’t drink during the day, and when they drink, they drink to get wasted. Smoking is forbidden and they eat en route, with coffee in a paper cup. They smoke and drink at home.”
Step it up, Paris.
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This is tricky. As someone living in Paris, I can identify with the push to keep cafés alive. What would Paris be...
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Bring back les cigarettes?
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Ugh- so sad. Americans have...go ruin everything awesome.
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I don’t know, I find this really heartbreaking for some reason. I kind of expect reformation and progression in this...
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Step it up, Paris.
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truth. I didn’t realize it was...global phenomena….I wonder if anyone has done
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