Mark Sullivan wrote:
> The Algonquin was popular with the Gold Medal
writers? I thought it
> catered to a more literary crowd. Isn't that where
"Mrs Parker and her
> Vicious Circle" (as the Alan Rudolph film called
them) held court?
> Sure, that was a bit earlier, but I still find it
surprising that the
> disreputable paperback writers would be welcome
there, or want to be.
> Then again, they probably drank enough that any bar
would welcome their
> money and patronize their patronage.
********** Yup, Meaker says the Algonquin was a hangout for
the Gold Medal writers. She also has some interesting
comments about writing the paperback originals, saying that
some of her closest friends would pat her on the back and
tell her not to worry, that she would make it into hardcover
one of these days. This worried Meaker because she wasn't
sure she could deal with the loss of income. She said she
made twice the money off her Gold Medals than Highsmith got
for her hardcovers. Meaker also noted that her paperbacks got
reviewed in the same Boucher column as the hardcovers.
miker
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