The London Lounge

the book party for my book Mouthpiece is on Feb 15 at the McManus Democratic club at 321W44 ST, its from 6-8
Everyone is invited: Just mention the London Lounge when you get to the door.

Unfortunately, I'll be ouit of town that week in Las Vegas at the tailors convention. But perhaps our mutual friend Bruce will attend and will give me an update!!

I hope the signing, and your book, are great successes.

Len

Ed, will books be available for purchase at the signing?

they usually hava a lot of books there if you can grab one, otherwise buy one and I'll sign it for you

Ed, many thanks for generous invitation.

Wish I could make it and introduce myself but don't live in NYC.

In any case, all success and good luck!

Congrats Ed!

I'm not even in the right hemisphere, but best of luck.

Tell me, I read in promotional material somewhere that you were part of the inspiration for the character Tommy Killian in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Yet, Killian, IIRC, isn't precisely well-dressed so much as a little bit of a spiv, and rather camp?

So what happened? Artistic licence?

Cheers,

Eden

BirdofSydney wrote:Tell me, I read in promotional material somewhere that you were part of the inspiration for the character Tommy Killian in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Yet, Killian, IIRC, isn't precisely well-dressed so much as a little bit of a spiv, and rather camp?

So what happened? Artistic licence?

I think you conflate the opinion of Wolfe-as-narrator with the opinion of one of Wolfe's characters. It is true that, in the eyes of Sherman McCoy, Killian at first appears to be flashily dressed. But Wolfe is merely recounting the honest reaction of someone from a different background, and different tradition of dress. Sherman dresses very plainly, partly as a matter of habit, partly out of necessity, as Wolfe makes clear very early in the book. Other characters -- in particular Killian's former colleagues at the Bronx DA's Office -- look at Killian's clotes with envy.

Also, if one pays attention to the (relatively few) instances when Wolfe describes in detail what Killian is wearing in a given scene, one sees that the clothes are far from outlandish, but in fact are things that I venture to say most of the members here would wear without hesitation.