New York Times’ T-Magazine “The Moment” posted an article about our book wonderfully titled “The Perfect Book for the Day” ! My father, Albert, for decades hoped to get Little Edie’s response to Walter Goodman’s negative review of Grey Gardens to make it into the Times, and now it’s finally found its way there. The letter and review also appear in the second half of the book that features documents related to the making and aftermath of the documentary film.
A house on the ocean in the middle of nowhere
“We actually lived in this house on the ocean in the middle of nowhere and we’re like these two crazy sisters,” Rebekah explains. “The house was supposedly haunted,” Sara says, adding, “But we had only one cat.”
In case you were wondering where near the Hamptons we were working on the book (which one online article misidentified as East Hampton itself), it was Fishers Island, New York. Fishers Island lies between New London, Connecticut and Orient Point, Long Island. Like East Hampton, during the summer it’s populated by summer vacationers and in the winter the population dwindles down to around 300 year-round residents including our wonderful friends Cynthia Riley, Ed Riley and Aaron Rice. Cynthia, Ed and Aaron in particular made sure we kept our sanity by making us get out of the house or dropping by unexpectedly to check in on us. While we were there, Rebekah wrote about her dreams and posted photos on her stream of consciousness blog “dangerdanger-dangerdanger“.
The “one cat” was Rebekah’s Danger (thus the name of the blog), who is mostly a danger to herself. This is one of Rebekah’s posts from last fall when we were editing/creating the book.
