Portraits and Observations

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Includes index.
Originally published: New York : Random House, ©2007.
New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and Andr Ǧide, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Ezra Pound, Somerset Maugham, Isak Dineson -- A house on the heights -- Lola -- Jane Bowles -- Extreme magic -- Ghosts in sunlight: The filming of In cold blood -- Greek paragraphs -- A voice from a cloud -- Cecil Beaton -- The white rose -- Self-portrait -- Preface to The dogs bark -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Music for chameleons -- Then it all came down -- Handcarved coffins -- A day's work -- Dazzle -- Hidden gardens -- Hello, stranger -- Derring-do -- Nocturnal turnings -- A beautiful child -- Mr. Jones -- A lamp in the window -- Hospitality -- Preface to Music for chameleons -- Remembering Tennessee -- Remembering Willa Cather.
A definitive anthology containing all of the author's essays encompasses his early travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood; portraits of Isak Dinesen, Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe; accounts of the filming of "In Cold Blood;" autobiographical musings; and the recently discovered "Remembering Willa Cather."

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