Another Man’s Poison

“One night at Nick’s, a jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village and a favorite hangout of O’Hara’s, trumpeter Bobby Hackett, a friend of George’s from the Boston jazz scene, brought George over to the author’s table and introduced him. ‘Sit down and have a drink,’ said O’Hara warmly. ‘You’re welcome at my table. You’re wearing a Brooks Brothers shirt.’”

– George Frazier’s biographer Charles Fountain, telling the story of how Frazier was introduced to famed writer John O’Hara. (Originally published in Another Man’s Poison, but quoted Boyer’s new book, True Style)