Book Giveaway For Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings

[close] HELLO GOODBYE HELLO is the fascinating, supremely inventive but utterly factual story of some of the most unlikely encounters between two people over the last century and a half. All are true, and they are told daisy-chain style: the second person in each encounter is the first person in the next one.

Madonna was terrified by her brief encounter with Martha Graham (Graham, however, had been fascinated by her encounter with Helen Keller).

Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot? It happened. They corresponded regularly.
Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev. They met in Hollywood.
Would you like to know what happened when two of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust and James Joyce, met? It didn't end well.

Janis Joplin and Patti Smith met at the Chelsea Hotel, not long after Joplin and Leonard Cohen "spent a little time together" as Cohen coyly remarked.

You get the idea. It's fabulous. [close]