That fits well with the account of Marijane Meaker,
particularly of the latter-day PH (presumably Pennzler met
her more toward her end), in her interview on FRESH AIR (the
NPR interview show) pushing her memoir of her romantic and
post-romantic life with Highsmith.
An interview very much worth listening to at its archive on
www.whyy.org
(some day, I'll be industrious enough to seek it all the way
to the file...I dubbed the i/v on tape off the air).
I'll be picking up the Meaker...and if the Philadelphia
Libraries weren't so famously broke right now, I might ask
them to buy both. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Mario Taboada [mailto:
matrxtech@yahoo.com]
Last Sunday's Washington Post Book World contains a review by
Alice Turner of _Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia
Highsmith_ by Andrew Wilson. The review is probably still
online.
According to the reviewer, this is a dispassionate biography
that doesn't try to glorify its subject. Here is Otto Penzler
on Patricia, as quoted in the book:
"There was an unredeemable ugliness to her. I never witnessed
a kind thought, a kind word, a kind gesture in all the time
we spent together."
And:
"She was a totally horrible woman. She was mean, unkind,
unfriendly and cold, and never missed an opportunity to be
nasty."
I thought you would like to know. I'm going to get the
library to buy it. Nasty or yes, Highsmith was one of the
essential writers of dark suspense.
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