O'Keefe asked me to explain all this.
I said I was trying to illuminate where New York and Florence still were themselves even as they faded from recognizable forms.
And now a year after Florence died and New York continued in its odd way and the home I grew up in now looks like a nice apartment for other people we never were, there are places still here and there, still persistently themselves ....
....that I go to to feel at home.
Celebrating Auntie Mame: The Novel That Taught Us to Live, Live, Live!
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On January 21, 1955, the literary world was introduced to one of its most
unforgettable characters: Auntie Mame. Patrick Dennis’s rollicking novel,
Aunti...
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