For Patrick Kurp.

New at IWP Books: Desmond MacCarthy, Portraits, 1931.

Arthur Krystal (A Word or Two Before I Go, 2023):

“Thirty years ago I contemplated writing about the British critic and raconteur Desmond MacCarthy. Accordingly, I headed off to Broadway and Thirteenth Street. In those days the literary criticism at the Strand was stuck in with Literature, which was somewhere toward the back of the store, near the left wall. Before I reached the rows designated by the letter M, a book fell from an upper shelf, just missing my head. I knew it was from a high shelf because of the loud clap it ma… waisberg.micro.blog