While this project is called “Writers Gone Wild: The Sequel” — or maybe “Writers Gone Wilder” — this anecdote is probably one of the mildest, but only because Dave Barry was ahead of his time in making an ass of himself on the Internet before the invention of social media turned it into the French […]
The heart wants what it wants, Woody Allen said, and to J. R. Ackerley, the English memoirist and editor, it was Queenie. She was everything he wanted in a lover. She was also a German shepherd. For 30 years, the Cambridge-educated Ackerley (1896-1967) was a cultural gatekeeper at the BBC. As literary editor of the […]