Showing posts with label The Memory of All That. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Memory of All That. Show all posts
Friday, June 12, 2015

Mother's Pearls

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A real staircase writing post. If I had known of this exchange, I would have been delighted to tuck it into The Memory Of All That . (Pict...
Monday, June 11, 2012

(Re)Publication Day

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The Broadway Books paperback edition of The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities  ...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Must Have Names and Facts

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My memoir, THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Families Legacy of Infidelities will be out in a pretty new pap...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Culminating, Superb "Miss Gandy"

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Last night I saw the new, nearly perversely static Clint Eastwood-directed movie, J. Edgar . Sitting through this bizarre film (awards for m...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

What Did My Father Do in the O.S.S.?

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The Office of Strategic Services was an intelligence agency created during the Second World War, with a principle mission of coordinatin...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

You Say To - MAY- to

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In 1998, the Library of Congress hosted a symposium with musical performances over several days in honor of what they called George Gershw...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Secrets of the Knife and Fork

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In The Memory Of All That I write about my grandmother's influence on George Gershwin as their friendship and then their romance deepene...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

The 1700 Typewriters of Sidney Kaufman

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In The Memory Of All That , I refer often to the FBI records concerning my father, Sidney Kaufman. Here's a page from among nearly 800 p...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Why Did My Mother Marry My Father?

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Of course, there is always a bit of mystery to any attraction. I make the case in The Memory Of All That for a significant factor in what d...
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Friday, July 8, 2011

July 11, 1937, and a July day in 1935

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On July 11th, 1937, George Gershwin died a tragic and lonely death at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, where he had just undergone...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Memory Of All That Artifacts

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I am going to be posting a number of items in the coming weeks, as The Memory Of All That makes its appearance in the world, things which a...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Words I Never Use

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This is, I suppose, the precise opposite of a staircase thought, or perhaps there should be a term for something you are glad you haven'...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Literally Walking Off the Page

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The first three "industry" reviews for The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy Of Infidelit...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Memo to that Certain Family Member

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Dear You Know Who You Are: Perhaps you wouldn't lie awake nights wondering if my forthcoming family memoir has "all those bad thing...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Final Moment Before Staircase Writing Sets In

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I have turned in all corrections to second pass pages for The Memory Of All That. From this moment on, anything else I want to include in th...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Just a Few STETs, Please

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The copy edited manuscript for my forthcoming memoir, The Memory of All That , arrived on my doorstep this morning. Working with this, I hav...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT

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Not a staircase thought, but I am sure I will soon be thinking about things I meant to include in the revised manuscript for my forthcoming ...
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