You're also a fixture on the New York scene. Do you find any similarities to modern day society and the Paris of Hemingway's past?
Well, I think one reason Everybody Behaves Badly resonates with New Yorkers so much is because little of the naughty human nature detailed in my book has changed. EBB is all about the link between creative ambition and commercial success, and New York remains the most ambitious place in the country. Frank Sinatra was right: If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere. By the way, there's a great chapter in my book in which Hemingway comes to NYC in 1926 to jilt his publisher and sign on with a more prestigious one, in a very crafty and dramatic manner. And he also parties with the Algonquin Round Table crowd, including Dorothy Parker. It's one of my favorite chapters in the book, full of booze and ambition and giddiness.
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