Naturally when you see that title, The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy [and Kindle], out this week from FSG, you want to know which animals. Chris was an old workhorse/stallion named Dobbin and Don was kitten named Kitty.
You'll be forgiven for thinking those names dim compared to the ark of human names that vivify these charming, sometimes smart, sometimes gossipy pages: Ackerley, Albee, Julie Andrews, Antonioni, Peggy Ashcroft, Astaire, Astor, Auden, Bacall, Bacon, Balanchine, James Baldwin, JM Barrie, Alan Bates, Beaton, Beckett, Sybille Bedford, Betjeman, Bogarde, Bouvier, Bowles, Brando, James Bridges, Britten, Bunuel, Richard Burton...all the way to Vidal, Visconti, Warhol, Weisman, Welles, Wells, Wescott, Williams, Wood, Woodcock, Woolf, Wyatt, Yeats, York, and Zeffirelli.
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