Dan Wakefield...has become a Boswell of the
heady days when art and literature had a singular
flowering in the Village, which means in American
culture, which in those days of American influence
means the world.”
        —Richard F. Shepard, New York Times

“Wakefield brings it all back: the emotional kick  
of Mabel Mercer singing ‘My Funny Valentine,’  
the pleasure of finding a new Salinger story....”
        —Scott Donaldson, USA Today

“It’s hard to imagine a remembrance more  
congenial—so graceful, so immune to grudge,  
so seasoned throughout with the equally vivid  
recollections of his friends.”
        —John Leonard, Newsday

“Wakefield has written a kinder spirited Moveable
Feast for his generation.”
        —Publishers Weekly

“This lovely, brimming book...tells anyone who was
not there what it was like.”
        —Boston Globe