Trip Report — The Final Chapter (Part 5)

This is the fifth and final installment of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.

This is the fifth and final installment of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.

Note: This is the fourth of five installments of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.
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Read MoreNote: This is the third of five installments of a trip report I wrote (unpublished) from February and March of 2012.
Read MoreLike his more recent now deceased contemporaries Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and William F. Buckley and in the mold of great thinkers of yesteryear such as H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and even Mark Twain, he was a fixture on the intellectual circuit. He basked in the spotlight in a time when writers were afforded the same celebrity as rock stars. One colleague pined, “he was the man who knew everyone.”
Read MorePart 2 of a 5-part series on visiting Florida, Philadelphia, and later Atlantic City.