My first read since becoming a paid subscriber (overdue). I love so much about this piece and all the paths to yours and your brother's past that you take us down. What gift to have had Eudora Welty as such a pivotal influence so early. I love you relay her gentle directness in suggesting you might want to read more Forster to get a broader sense of his scope. Just out of college and living in DC, I met Andy Warhol in 1979, at a party for the kick-off of Liza Minnelli's Kennedy Center run. At the time I was working at U.S. News & World Report in the art department. Andy was standing by himself; he'd flown down to support LM and did not have his usual coterie of hangers-on around. I introduced myself and he asked what I did. I did not want to mention to the artist at the center of the counter-culture, who'd founded the edgiest magazine in America that I worked for the most conservative newsmagazine in America. But I didn't want to make up something, so I told him. He lit up like a candle. "That's my favorite magazine! I just did an ad campaign for them last year. Do you like it there?" We chatted for a few minutes more, and Andy said, "If you're ever in New York you should come to the Factory." Someone took our picture so I still have a snapshot of the moment. A year later, prior to moving to New York, I called him. He said to stop by, so I did. He came out, gave me a tour of the art wing, then called Bob Colacello over from the magazine wing; they asked if I had any good DC gossip. It was a lovely visit. He was lovely. Would you have been working there yet? This would have been fall of 1980. Were you working there then?
My first read since becoming a paid subscriber (overdue). I love so much about this piece and all the paths to yours and your brother's past that you take us down. What gift to have had Eudora Welty as such a pivotal influence so early. I love you relay her gentle directness in suggesting you might want to read more Forster to get a broader sense of his scope. Just out of college and living in DC, I met Andy Warhol in 1979, at a party for the kick-off of Liza Minnelli's Kennedy Center run. At the time I was working at U.S. News & World Report in the art department. Andy was standing by himself; he'd flown down to support LM and did not have his usual coterie of hangers-on around. I introduced myself and he asked what I did. I did not want to mention to the artist at the center of the counter-culture, who'd founded the edgiest magazine in America that I worked for the most conservative newsmagazine in America. But I didn't want to make up something, so I told him. He lit up like a candle. "That's my favorite magazine! I just did an ad campaign for them last year. Do you like it there?" We chatted for a few minutes more, and Andy said, "If you're ever in New York you should come to the Factory." Someone took our picture so I still have a snapshot of the moment. A year later, prior to moving to New York, I called him. He said to stop by, so I did. He came out, gave me a tour of the art wing, then called Bob Colacello over from the magazine wing; they asked if I had any good DC gossip. It was a lovely visit. He was lovely. Would you have been working there yet? This would have been fall of 1980. Were you working there then?
thank you so much for this .. it means a lot
Thank you, as always, for connecting with me.
A+, and oh that letter from Forster. I wonder where it is now.
Beautiful.
Maurice made me a Forster fan. The film in 1987 opened my eyes to what was possible.