Beagle_Emerson_Sandburg_Iceman - The Monday Morning Memo

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You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?

All I really want from a dinner party is to have fun. I just don’t know if Socrates was fun. I know Nora Ephron was, so she’s in. Oscar Wilde, too, but what if he’s having an off night? Could be a disaster. Mark Twain had a wide-ranging intellect, so he’s in, plus I owe him. Dorothy Parker, just to find out if what they say about her wit is true. Adam Gopnik is always a welcome guest: How is it possible to be smart about everything? And now I’m rethinking the Socrates invite. He could moderate and probably do it very well. Oh, and Rebecca Solnit. I loved her book, ‘Men Explain Things to Me,’ so she could throw me looks whenever I became ‘that guy.’

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- Steve Martin, NY Times Book Review, Oct 29, 2020

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