A Greenwich Village Watering Hole For Artistically Bent Elbows

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LAFAYETTE:
A Saloon for the Salon
(1937)

Photograph by  Berenice Abbott

A more accurate word than "fan"
in the description below:
Dawn Powell was
the "centerpiece"
of the Lafayette

The scribbles in both images
are mine.

On the Mount Olympus
of 20th Century American literature,
there is a place for both
Dawn Powell and John Cheever


Ernest Hemingway once described
Dawn Powell as his
"favorite living author"

I have read more than
two thousand pages
written by (or about)
Dawn Powell

She was born in 1896

John Cheever 
was born in 1912

I have read three novels and
sixty short stories 
 by Cheever

Cocktails and conversation
are essential ingredients
in the literature of both
Powell and Cheever

Part of my appreciation
of Cheever is enhanced
by feeling the
literary DNA
of Dawn Powell
in his stories

I always sensed
they had spent
quality time together
somewhere

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Footnotes
My next Dawn Powell page
is TBD

Unfortunately,
my six Cheever pages
are not linked together

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