Milking the moon
Subtitle: a Southerner's story of life on this planet
By: Eugene Walter as told to Katherine Clark ; foreword by George Plimpton
Contributors: Clark, Katherine
Publisher: Untreed Reads, LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781611877663
Subjects: Friends and associates; American Authors; Homes and haunts; Americans; History; Biography; Food writers; Intellectual life; Social life and customs; Friendship; Manners and customs
Description: The author, born in Mobile, Alabama, lived in various locales, enjoyed the company of many luminaries, had such adventures as a role in Fellini's 8 1/2, and "went wherever his fancy and whimsy led him." His "Cast of characters," provides remarkable, brief glimpses of such personalities as Djuna Barnes, Bricktop, Alfred Chester, Federico Fellini, Josephine Herbst, James Laughlin, Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and many, many others.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction: Eugene in the details; title: Mobile; title: The Arctic Circle; title: New York; title: Paris; title: Rome; title: Mobile, again; title: Cast of characters; title: Acknowledgements.