Timebends (109 page)

At Ilya and Lyuba Ehrenburg's table in their Moscow apartment, 1965. Surviving “the lottery” of life under Stalin, he returned from reporting the Spanish Civil War to find that almost all his fellow newsmen had disappeared after coming home, for they had “mixed with foreigners.”

Signing Yuri Lyubimov's Taganka Theatre wall, a few years before he chose exile abroad.

In Cologne, Heinrich Boll's hometown, 1972, before his election as international president of PEN.

Rebecca Miller in her Brooklyn studio, 1987.

Inge and Henri Cartier-Bresson still arguing layouts: his apartment, Paris.

Addressing New York PEN Congress as president, 1966.

A breather at the ‘66 PEN Congress: with Saul Bellow and John Steinbeck after Bellow's speech.

Pablo Neruda in Dauber and Pine's now vanished bookstore, looking for Shakespeare sonnets and Whitman editions.

Democratic Convention, 1968: with fellow Connecticut delegate Paul Newman as our hopes for a Vietnam peace plank in the party platform were dying.

Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Steve Minot, and I getting ready to address a New Haven rally against the slaughter in Vietnam.

The greatest used furniture dealer in human history, David Burns, hypnotizes Kate Reid, Arthur Kennedy, and Pat Hingle in
The Price,
1967, Ulu Grosbard, director.

Directing
Up from Paradise,
my musical version of
The Creation of the World and Other Business,
with Seth Allen and Kimberly Farr.

Sister Joan as her “mother” in the 1980
American Clock,
with John Randolph.