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• 2016: Reading The Great Dethriffe 40 Years Later
  on Jul 24, 2016 in 1972 2016D C.D.B. Bryan Phoebe Bryan The Great Dethriffe
      Dad was a journalist even when writing his three books of fiction. P.S Wilkinson, The Great Dethriffe and Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes were all thinly veiled accounts of his life, his relationships, his thoughts and feelings about the t...
• 1954: Uncle Saint reporting from Fire Island?
  on Aug 18, 2015 in Fire Island J Bryan lll John O'Hara Saint Bryan Uncle Saint Wolcott Gibbs
      My cousin Katharine and I have every reason to believe the young barefoot reporter seen in this 1954 NBC news footage is our Uncle Saint. The footage is for a story about New Yorker theatre critic Wolcott Gibbs and his weekly summer new...
• Witty Dotty
  on Jan 2, 2015 in Alan Campbell Dorothy Parker J Bryan lll Merry Gentlemen (And One Lady)
    These are photographs of Dorothy Parker and her canine companions that my Grandpa Joe took a year before she died at the age of 73. I found them inside the cover of Sunset Gun, a collection of verses she wrote in 1928.   No Dorothy P...
• Robin Williams
  on Aug 15, 2014 in Robin Williams
  I had the pleasure of interviewing Robin Williams several times on movie junkets and shared one of those rare couple of minutes when cameras aren't ready to roll. We talked about my son's imminent birth. Robin leaned in, that famous face widening in...
• The Bryan Boys
  on Aug 11, 2014
  Upon the death of J. St. George Bryan, 66, in June, 1945 the Bryan-owned Richmond New Leader ran this editorial:Sharply etched as was ST GEORGE BRYAN in personality, he seldom thought of himself, so far as we observed, otherwise than as a member of a...
• Stashed Between The Pages
  on Jun 17, 2014 in James Michener John O'Hara William Maxwell
      I am still finding letters and photos sealed between pages of books in the attic. From Ancestors, a 1971 novel written by the legendary New Yorker editor William Maxwell, quite a few things had been stashed for years. The most interesti...
• A Suburban View of the 1968 Washington Riots
  on Mar 8, 2014 in 1968 1968 Riots Jr. Alexandria Virginia Martin Luther King
      When my mom typed this letter on the evening after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, Washington DC was embroiled in a second night of rioting. Downtown buildings were on fire and 15 thousand extra troops had been se...
• Who Played Me in a Movie?
  on Feb 11, 2014 in 1979 family mystery Friendly Fire Jenny Sullivan Sam Waterston
       Everybody has a family mystery they would like to solve. Here's mine. In 1979, some uncredited kids played me and my sister in the ABC TV movie Friendly Fire. We know Sam Waterston played my dad and an actress named Jenn...
• Mexican Divorce in the Mad Men Age
  on Oct 26, 2013
  On January 14th, 1986 Esquire Magazine's David Hirshey contracted Dad to write a short 500 word  piece on Divorce due February 14th for $500. It was never used.   Twenty years ago I was separated from my wife and living in a 14th...
• Letter to Kurt Vonnegut Dec 3, 1975
  on Oct 19, 2013 in 1969 Friendly Fire Kurt Vonnegut New York Times Book Review
  It had been six years since Dad had praised Kurt Vonnegut in a  New York Times Book Review article entitled "Kurt Vonnegut, Head Bookinist", timed for the release of Slaughterhouse-Five. Nine years since he'd written a"ground breaking" retrospec...

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