Six years after my mom’s dad helped start a garment cutters’ union, he’d left the clothing trade, been divorced from my grandmother and remarried, and founded Bruce Motor Service. This photo appeared in the May 16, 1947 issue of Shopping News, a weekly Oak Cliff circular masquerading as a newspaper. The caption paints Robert Bruce as a man who liked . . .
Is everyone else aware that the NYU bookstore gives out free copies of the NYTBR the Tuesday before publication? (Many thanks to Shelley Ettinger for the news.)
James Wolcott’s “non story about not meeting Kurt Vonnegut” is equal parts hilarious and depressing and thus a perfect homage.
My buddy Reeves reminds me that Vonnegut would have wanted us all to be cracking jokes. To that end: “Kurt Vonnegut’s in heaven now.”
Nextbook runs Primo Levi’s “The Molecule’s Defiance.” Elsewhere, his biographer tells of Levi’s correspondence with a Mrs. Hety S., and a trip he took to London shortly before his suicide.