CRUISING WITH KATE A MEMOIR by Bernard F. Conners
Marvel at the challenges confronting Bernard as publisher of The Paris Review, while mixing with New York's literati, including Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and George Plimpton. Shiver with Bernard's "Butterflies" as he struggles to balance his day job surveilling top hoods under the watchful eye of J. Edgar Hoover with his nighttime frolics as an arriviste among Manhattan's haute monde.
Bernard F. Conners, a former publisher of the distinguished literary quarterly The Paris Review, and George A. Plimpton, the former editor of the magazine, founded the company in 1987 to publish works of general interest.