In the mail today, "Hotel Lambosa," which I had never read, incredibly enough. I remember leafing through it in a bookstore when it first came out and deciding not to purchase it. Had I turned my back on Kenneth Koch? Looking at the copyright page I notice the editorial assistance of Jordan Davis.

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I discovered today that Eleanor Sterling, an old friend from my home town, is a specialist on a small Madagascarean beast called an aye-aye, works at the National Museum of National History in New York, and is married to a poet, though exactly which poet remains a mystery.