(Community Matters) On the way to the Minetta Lane Theatre, Charles & I popped into author/curator, Pierre Apraxine’s luxury abode. Pierre one of Charlie’s closest NY friends, who of course I’ve known for many years.
Pierre – who claims to be retired (Gillman Company’s White Oak Press) – still lecturing, curating and organizing his 50 years of papers. Rightfully proud of a new acquisition, a fashion photographer Irving Penn original, Crossing the River Styx in platinum.
And . . . . finally caught up with Charlie’s big brother, John Phillip Santos over a long Japanese dinner
at Omen’s in SOHO. JP celebrating submitting (on Friday) his new book, The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Eulogy. Scheduled to be released by Viking/Penguin in early 2010. Though no one except his priest has read the manuscript (and Vernon only the first chapter), listening last night, suspect Farthest Home may generate even more buzz than Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, which earned JP a National Book Award finalist.
Long, sometimes heated conversation about education, politics and national priorities – the perfect way to spend my last evening in America’s cultural capital.
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