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“They migrated to the usual room on the second floor. Heywood Broun was there by the door, setting up bottles of gin, scotch and beer. Alexander Woollcott sat ensconced behind the round table (not THE Round Table). He shuffled the cards and stacked up poker chips.
Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”
― Murder Your Darlings
Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”
― Murder Your Darlings
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor. That's what we do, at any rate.”
― Murder Your Darlings
― Murder Your Darlings
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“They migrated to the usual room on the second floor. Heywood Broun was there by the door, setting up bottles of gin, scotch and beer. Alexander Woollcott sat ensconced behind the round table (not THE Round Table). He shuffled the cards and stacked up poker chips.
Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”
― Murder Your Darlings
Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”
― Murder Your Darlings
“Someone misdirected you [...] Most writers in New York don't do much writing. They spend their time talking and drinking bootleg liquor. That's what we do, at any rate.”
― Murder Your Darlings
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Love, the reeling midnight through,
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Thanks, Michael. Hope you like the second in the series. Yeah, I've been thinking I have to do something about the Harlem Renaissance--Paul Robeson was an occasional member of the Round Table.
Looking forward to reading the next book in the series and when you do the baseball book. I wonder if a book having the Round Table connected with members of the Harlem Renaissance. (I just read a book about the history of Harlem. I attended City College of New York, you'd think I'd know a little about the place).
Hi J.J.,Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author here on Goodreads!
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