Tuesday, August 20, 2013

On My Radar:

Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings
by Craig Brown
Simon & Schuster
Trade paperback

From the publisher website:

IMAGINE THESE UNLIKELY—BUT TRUE—ENCOUNTERS: 
Martha Graham and Madonna 
Igor Stravinsky and Walt Disney 
Frank Lloyd Wright and Marilyn Monroe 
Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev 
President Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley 
Harpo Marx and George Bernard Shaw 
Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud 
Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot 
BRILLIANT IN CONCEPTION AND DIZZYING IN EXECUTION, Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, chance meetings, and disastrous collisions between the celebrated and the gifted, the famous and the infamous. Witty and wicked, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable).
Links

Review (New York Times)

6 Oddball Meetings Between Celebrities (Christian Science Monitor)

Review (New York Journal of Books)






2 comments:

  1. I read this a while ago and cannot recommend it highly enough.

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  2. Thanks, jd. I appreciate the recommendation. :)

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