Thanks, Doc Sarvis.

I recently finished Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn.

That is not one of the novels I'll be re-reading as is my wont with other great works.

I'm reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I find that it's not as captivating as his later works.

Thanks, Doc Sarvis, entertaining little anecdote. I recall both actors well.

I had a chance to purchase Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger when I worked in a NYC bookstore last century, but I didn't buy it. Can't recall why. And I had an employee discount.

Ah well, Akim and Nehemiah probably wouldn't have been in that expose anyway.

Yup, we did that too. I couldn't stand doing that to the paperbacks. Good thing I didn't do much of that. And I couldn't take home the coverless books because they seemed spoiled or corrupted to me.

For me too, that was an enjoyable chapter in my life.

Now the mom-and-pop bookstores are part of "Vanishing America."

As a writer, I am sure you visited the Algonquin Hotel decades ago and met Hamlet.