You wouldn’t guess it from The Times’ glowing coverage of Eve in recent years, capped by a to-die-for obituary, but the paper was, in general, quite rough on her when she was actually writing. They let her think she was just a shitty Hollywood actress and Arthur Miller was a brilliant genius…. Starting in the midst of Eve's journey from New York to Hollywood, it offers some explanation of where the character went and what she got up to during her absence from the 'stage' in Rules. Rules of civility" του ίδιου συγγραφέα, αγόρασα αυτή τη νουβέλα που ακολουθεί την παράλληλη πορεία ενός από τους χαρακτήρες του προηγούμενου βιβλίου αφού αποχώρησε από την πλοκή.

At Hollywood high school, her classmates included Linda Evans, Tuesday Weld and Yvette Mimieux, a “movie star, even when she butted in front of you in the cafeteria line”. This time it was to Hollywood and Los Angeles in the ‘30s, with some interesting characters and stories. And young women who were already dauntingly cool were confirming and enhancing their vogue by associating with her. And to Pauline Kael who we discovered on KPFA one glorious day and whose sentences don't parse either.

The day I was 18, Sally and I had a reunion because we were still friends though we saw less and less of each other. And to the Sandabs at Musso's, the Eggplant Florentine, the guy who makes the pancakes and my friend in the parking lot (not the one on the ground, the one who parks your car, the young one). The ending doesn't feel as much like an ending as a segue into the next chapter, which, sadly is not there.

Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. And to Chuck Berry, a brown eyed handsome man who knows what he likes even if it is astroturf and 21 TVs.

A. that was more than just a “wasteland,” it was a playground full of culture—if you knew where to look for it, as Eve always did.