Sublime

What about the South? His body recoiled. Ugh. Not that. As a white man he would have plenty of place, in fact more than he had here in the P.S.A. But … he did not want that kind of place.

partner, lending the family money in the early days. Years later, after the brothers struck it big in Hollywood, they gave Garlick a life pass to all Warner theaters.

when a protagonist journeys into the woods, the woods have to be as frightening, as dark and foreboding as home is welcoming.

one final choice:

By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the

I asked Ernest about Harold and Pat and he explained that Harold Loeb was Princeton from a very rich New York family, had been on the boxing and wrestling teams in college. He had literary aspirations, even started a little magazine in Paris called Broom. Fiercely devoted to Duff, very jealous of Pat, who alternated weekends with Duff.

But she’ll talk to Imani McGuire. Holly is a fan of Michael Connelly’s detective hero, Harry Bosch, and especially of Bosch’s number one maxim: get off your ass and go knock on doors.

Hollywood tends to extremes;

Y compris les bookmakers et les gangsters. L’un des plus célèbres d’entre eux, Meyer Lansky, surnommé « Mastermind of the Mob », l’un des fondateurs de Las Vegas et qui fut ensuite à la tête d’un véritable empire criminel, venait régulièrement manger cheese-cake et pastrami, seul, tranquillement, la nuit venue. Mais le fait de gloire de Wolfie’s,