Billie Holiday, Augusten Burroughs, and Underwater Dogs: Business and Pleasure in New York
A week on the East Coast. One last hurrah before the blessed regularity of school kicks in.
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Could not. Be prouder. |
His Auntie Sue arranged the whole event. We stayed at her beautiful home, ate from her garden and watched Swallowtail Caterpillars munching on her fennel.
Back down to the City, where we stayed at our friends Denis & Hugo’s most comfortable digs in Ft. Green, Brooklyn. I had some business of my own in Manhattan. Took the N train down to the Flatiron Building, where I had my first visit to St. Martin’s Press. My editor Sara was away on vacation (as almost everyone is in Manhattan during August) but I was warmly welcomed by her assistant, the young and impossibly refreshed-looking Alicia Adkins-Clancy, who looked as if she had just stepped from a meadow filled with daisies instead of from a tiny white office in the warren of St. Martin’s in the heat of summer.
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Ivan Lett, the man who will make me talk to people. |
A quick stop to Eataly, Mario Batali’s food-court-on-steroids emporium of Italian gourmet food. It’s like a Disneyland for foodies: Pastaland! Torroneville! Proscuitti of the Caribbean! I want to book a room and eat my way through every department. If you had seen the delicacies on display, you would not blame me for taking away a caprese panini even though I had JUST MOMENTS BEFORE eaten lunch. Mario must bring one to Los Angeles, we are a poorer town without one.
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I swear, I did not cripple Christopher. He came that way. |
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A year ’til my book is out! The countdown begins!
Topics: Audra McDonald • Augusten Burroughs • Christopher Schelling • Eataly • Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill • Morton LIbrary • Rhinecliff • St. Martin's Press
I only counted two moves on your vacation!
Someone's counting! Ah, but there were two other interstitial stopping-off places to mundane to mention, though that hammock at the Nu Hotel was interesting (though not comfortable)
So proud of you all. Ben's work is OUTSTANDING! And, so exciting to see and hear you hob-knobbing with the Gliterati! Woo-hoo!
What a wonderful journey!
You are just too kind! Was so wonderful to meet you! I can't wait until the book is out! 🙂