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Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Tue Nov 9, 2021, 05:19 AM Nov 2021

Patricia Highsmith's Notebooks and Diaries

There's a review today in the NYT of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith who wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley. All about being young in NYC in the 40s. A few years ago I vowed to stop buying books because I had so many. This sounds so interesting I might buy it.

Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes https://nyti.ms/3H1wL9Q

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Patricia Highsmith's Notebooks and Diaries (Original Post) Tomconroy Nov 2021 OP

This does sound wonderful. madaboutharry Nov 2021 #1

article in The New Yorker NJCher Dec 2021 #2

madaboutharry

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1. This does sound wonderful.

Reply to Tomconroy (Original post)

Tue Nov 9, 2021, 06:36 AM

Nov 2021

I think her novel “The Price of Salt” is one of the beautiful books ever written.

Highsmith was also known to have a mean streak, which always seemed to me incongruous with some of the characters she created.

I may need to buy this book as well.

NJCher

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2. article in The New Yorker

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Thu Dec 2, 2021, 09:59 AM

Dec 2021

I've been reading an article on the New Yorker about her. It features her "first sentences" in the intro.

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