Well, one of her living friends--David Markson--reacted by
blurbing her book.
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On Nov 18, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Alice Denham has become the first of our many NYC
>> writing friends to have a book receive a full-page review
>> in the NYT Book Review.
>>
>> Read it, and cheer!
> I wish I were older:-). Ah, but fame--not money, thank God--seemed
> to be the prerequisite for Ms Denham's favors. Who knows.
>
> I wonder how some of her living friends like Roth will welcome
> being part of a tell-all story. James Jones probably would be
> mortified. Roth...well, heat is not surprising.
>
> I can't verify this story that I heard about 30 years ago...but
> Denham's story makes it worth repeating. Allegedly some society
> lady had an affair with Lord Byron (big news) and broke the code by
> writing about it afterwards. I don't know how she could have
> published in the 1820s without getting herself locked up. In any
> case, when word came to Byron of what this mistress had done, he
> exclaimed to his friends "I've heard of kiss and tell, but this is
> fuck and publish!"
>
> And I still wish I were older, and so to bed....
>
> ken
>
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