A Voice From Old New York: a Memoir of My Youth
“Writerly Types MY WIFE, THE FORMER Adele Lawrence, observed, in the first year of our marriage, 1958, that, as by this time I had received some acknowledgment as a novelist, she had expected to meet more members of the literary world. She did not say this with any particular disappointment; her reading was mostly of detective fiction or works connected with her passion: saving the natural environment.
Adele became the assistant administrator of New York City parks and was a founding trustee of ...the Natural Resources Defense Council. She had simply assumed that writers would see other writers, and had no objection to that. Indeed the oddity of our very happy union was that our interests were almost complete opposites.
"Is there some particular writer you'd like to meet?" I asked her.
She didn't know many, so she picked a famous one. "Well, what about Norman Mailer? You know him, don't you?" "Certainly. And I happen to have an invitation from him in my pocket. For Wednesday night." "Fine.MoreLess
Adele became the assistant administrator of New York City parks and was a founding trustee of ...the Natural Resources Defense Council. She had simply assumed that writers would see other writers, and had no objection to that. Indeed the oddity of our very happy union was that our interests were almost complete opposites.
"Is there some particular writer you'd like to meet?" I asked her.
She didn't know many, so she picked a famous one. "Well, what about Norman Mailer? You know him, don't you?" "Certainly. And I happen to have an invitation from him in my pocket. For Wednesday night." "Fine.MoreLess
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