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Mar 29, 2020 - 2:02 PM
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Howard L
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from the NY Times (print), March 27--
When Richard Marek was a young editor at Scribner’s in Manhattan in the early 1960s, he was entrusted with one of the literary world’s most important manuscripts, “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway’s intimate portrait of his life as an unknown writer in Paris in the 1920s.
Hemingway had scrawled his edits in the margins of the manuscript. Mr. Marek planned to go over it at home, and carefully slipped the pages into an envelope before getting on the subway near his Midtown office.
But once he arrived home, on the Upper West Side, he didn’t have the envelope. He realized he had left it on the subway.
Panic ensued. He sobbed all night and told himself, “My career is over.”
The next morning, he went to the subway’s lost and found and saw to his astonishment that someone had turned in the envelope.
And his career was far from over.
Mr. Marek, who died on Sunday at 86 at his home in Westport, Conn. — the cause was esophageal cancer, his wife, Dalma Heyn, said — was one of New York’s most prominent editors and publishers.
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Aug 11, 2020 - 5:00 PM
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Howard L
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He idolized Hemingway and covered wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. He lived in Dublin, Barcelona, Mexico City, Saigon, San Juan, Rome and Tokyo. But his roots were in New York, where he pounded out stories about murders, strikes, the World Series, championship fights, jazz or politics, and then got drunk after work with buddies at the Lion’s Head in Greenwich Village.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/pete-hamill-dead.html
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Good to see you back 
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Sep 22, 2020 - 6:07 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I'm looking forward to reading Exile's Return by Malcolm Cowley, which arrived at the Phelps Dacha unscathed by the tropical rain that drenched South Florida yesterday:
"The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed “the lost generation”, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others “escaped” to Europe, as exiles."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298268/exiles-return-by-malcolm-cowley/
Excerpts from the book I've read immediately pulled me into that Lost Generation world. I have a feeling I'm going to thoroughly enjoy this one.
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