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Title: (Because He Had No Intention of Reading It, Nor, Ostensibly, Giving Offense)
Review: Remembering Mr. Maugham, Garson Kanin; Atheneum (1966)Highly recommended! Also suggested is the reading, first, of Selina Hastings's superb biography, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (Random House 2009), & after that, swinging on back to RMM.Oddly, the arrangements of Kanin's journal entries -not in customary chronological order ("1948 New York" is followed by "1951 St Jean-Cap Ferrat," which precedes "3 February 1949 New York") do not create confusion. But I suspect that is because I had had the good fortune to have read Hastings's biography last summer (which also served as a heaven-sent distraction to the crazy drivers on the Massachusetts turnpike during our return from Maine).Maugham's "note reminds me of...Disraeli's classic acknowledgement: `My dear So-and-so, Thank you for sending me your new book. I shall lose no time in reading it. Faithfully yours, etc.' "That took a minute or two to figure out.
