Benjamin Dreyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Benjamin Dreyer

I think that I can say without fear of contradiction that the locked-elbow wrist waggle is a high point of Western Civilization that the Sistine Chapel ceiling and James Joyce's Ulysses can't even begin to approach.

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@CalMorgan @Casey_CAC I saw Lionel Hampton play twice, once in support of Bette Midler on Broadway, and once at Leonard Garment's Crazy Rhythm book party, which was, IIRC, at Studio 54.

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@elizmccracken In perhaps the first conversation I had with Susan, she handed me two novels and said "Read these": Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance and The Giant's House. It was a good thing.

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"That yard's a mighty long place for little girls to cross at night," Jem teased. "Ain't you scared of haints?" —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Ahem.

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@MarkHarrisNYC The Haunting of Hill House's Theodora is one of Shirley Jackson's most likable characters—which, yes, isn't saying much, but she's where I've gotten to for the moment.

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Or to put it another way: If John Guare had written Six Degrees of Separation in 1980, Joan would have played Ouisa.

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Billy Wilder: A Foreign Affair (1948), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and let's make it an even quartet with Stalag 17 (1953). Thanks, and have a nice day. https://t.co/EahigukKIK

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one of Rudyard Kipling's lesser-known Just So stories

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It's odd that I Remember Mama went un-Broadway-musicalized for so long, esp. given that the 1944 dramatization was written by John Van Druten, who directed The King and I (sort of), and produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves.

Benjamin Dreyer

I think that I can say without fear of contradiction that the locked-elbow wrist waggle is a high point of Western Civilization that the Sistine Chapel ceiling and James Joyce's Ulysses can't even begin to approach.

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