Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California. Carolyn See Read Quote
Gillespie and I’ is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires. Carolyn See Read Quote
There’s a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don’t know it by then, you’re the jerk. Carolyn See Read Quote
It was in ‘Esquire’ in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron’s recipe for borscht – certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine. Carolyn See Read Quote
A Long Way Gone’ says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore. Carolyn See Read Quote
Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world. Carolyn See Read Quote
I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process. Carolyn See Read Quote
The Talk-Funny Girl’ opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down. Carolyn See Read Quote