This story wasn't written by me, but by my grandfather, Alan Gardner. I'm excited to share his story with Wattpad as I read through and edit it for the first time. ------- An English newspaperman, sent to Rome to cover a meeting of the English Princess and the Pope and to find what happened to a journalist who myster...
Gene Di Novi played piano for the greats of the 20th Century: Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. This is his biography spoken to the fine writer Jack Batten. "I played piano with Bird and Diz. I accompanied Lena, Peggy, Raquel, Barbra, one Dinah (Shore, but not...
"I never knew how pretty I was until I met you." A meditation on the inevitability of aging, (the eventual corruption of) beauty, and soul-destroying loneliness.