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One last lunch : a final meal with those who meant so much to us / edited by Erica Heller.

Summary:

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings? In One Last Lunch, Heller, an acclaimed memoirist herself, has asked friends and family of authors, artists, musicians, comedians, actors, and others, to recount one such fantastic repast. Muffie Meyer and her documentary subject Little Edie Beale go to a deli in Montreal. Kirk Douglas asks his father what he thought of him becoming an actor. Sara Moulton dines with her friend Julia Child. The Anglican priest George Pitcher has lunch with Jesus. These richly imagined stories are endlessly revealing, about the subject, the writer, the passage of time, regret, gratitude, and the power of enduring love.

Record details

ISBN: 1419735322
ISBN: 9781419735325
Physical Description: ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Abrams Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Erica Heller and Joseph Heller -- Clarence Major and James Baldwin -- Brook Ashley and Tallulah Bankhead -- Al Díaz and Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Muffie Meyer and Little Edie Beale -- Daniel Bellow and Saul Bellow -- Carinthia West and David Bowie -- Aviva Layton and William Burroughs -- Benjamin Cheever and John Cheever -- Sara Moulton and Julia Child -- The Rev. George Pitcher and Jesus Christ -- David Layton and Leonard Cohen -- Kirk Douglas and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch -- Jesse Kornbluth and Nora Ephron -- Elwood H. Smith and Nancy Boyer Feindt -- David Breithaupt and Allen Ginsburg -- Phyllis Raphael and Max Glezos-Chartoff -- Stephanie Pierson and Marcella Hazan -- Margaret Heilbrun and Carolyn Heilbrun and her pseudonym, Amanda Cross -- Joe Lewis and Jimi Hendrix -- Hussein Ibish and Christopher Hitchens -- Allegra Huston and Enrica "Ricki" Soma -- Lee Clow and Steve Jobs -- Kaylie Jones and James Jones -- RF Jurjevics and Juris Jurjevics -- Nancy Evans and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Hilma Wolitzer and Maxine Kumin -- Cathy Ladman and Leo Ladman -- Caroline Leavitt and Henry Leavitt -- Elizabeth Mailer and Norman Mailer -- Merrill Markoe and Ronny Markoe -- Bob Balaban and Groucho Marx -- Malachy McCourt and Frank McCourt -- Rick Moody and Meredith Moody -- Dahlia Lithwick and Paul Newman -- Kate O'Toole and Peter O'Toole -- Taja Sevelle and Prince -- Rain Pryor and Richard Pryor -- Christopher Rauschenberg and Robert Rauschenberg -- Robert Chalmers and Lou Reed -- Adrien G. Lesser and Oliver Sacks -- Anne Serling and Rod Serling -- Dan Allentuck and Maureen Stapleton -- Tracy Tynan and Kenneth Tynan -- Mark Vonnegut and Kurt Vonnegut -- Richard Bausch and Eudora Welty -- Cameron West and Robin Williams -- James Grissom and Tennessee Williams -- Richard Lewis and Jonathan Winters -- Erica Heller and Joseph Heller.