Another chance meeting for me. I had not heard of Van Vechten until just two days ago when I met him in Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting and learned about his connection to Stein. Looking forward to the chapter on Zora Neale Hurston

Half the fun of your job must be the research.

Last February I began moving 4000 books belonging to a gentleman getting out of the business. A week or so in he said, "if you really want to move books you might bring someone who can't read."