Dear Sugar-boy : Your two shitty jazz programs arrived & I have sent them on to Bernard, after making them even shittier in my own quaint way, course. Cannes is magnificent, it’s criminal to have to come back to Paris & such dens of iniquity as Studio Roosevelt. I think of you often, & shudder at the thought… Poignees de main from another pupil of Jean Sebastien Bach, « that great jazz musician » (have you been out in the sun ?) A bientôt, Nelson Algren.
Après quoi, Boris Vian traduisit L’Homme au bras d’or.
Deux amusants documents.