pickWhen Ada finds interviews on tape her art critic father recorded of friends discussing poet Frank O‘Hara, she feels she might be able to finish a biography that her dad didn‘t complete. She thought she could convince the executor of the estate to give permissions her father failed to secure. Nope . This book evolves into a memoir,a love letter to NYC, & the creative life.Despite differences w/ her father is grateful she grew up in St.Marks place !
Not even done with this yet ! Very good !
#thismademebuythat
I don‘t need more books but I bought more books !
Littens understand.
Vacation memories are often evanescent and sepia-toned, and Fire Island‘s archive can feel similarly fragile, a record of a seasonal community historically designed to evade detection. Its stories vanished, perhaps, in the moment of their utterance, consigned to the ocean breeze or the grave, along with the raconteurs, flamboyant and well-connected, who first told them.
#frankohara
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