By admin 8/25/03 12:00am

A Writer Writes a Writer’s Life: Awful O’Hara in Human Scale

The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O’Hara by Geoffrey Wolff. Alfred A. Knopf, 373 pages, $30

He was truculent and resentful. A heavy drinker with a short-fuse temper. A name-dropper. An egomaniac who had mastered the art of the awful first impression. Easily wounded, a snob and a social climber, he was Read More

By Moira Hodgson 8/24/98 12:00am

Appointment in Manhattan: Short Story, Great Dinner

The room was dark as a speakeasy, with maroon walls, leather banquettes, a pressed-tin ceiling and bare tabletops. Framed on the wall leading up to the kitchen and a small bar upstairs was a cover of John O’Hara’s novel Butterfield Eight .

“Uh-oh, somebody had a highball,” she said when she came through the Read More