Artists and the affair that affected their art. Almost a tongue-twister and from title of the book, for some, apparently it was. I ran across this review in the Washington Post and the review was interesting enough that I’m putting “Art of the Affair” by Catherine Lacey on my must read list.

An excerpt of the review by Jamie Fisher, “Affairs can be hushed midnight trysts, but they also can be “collaborations, friendships, mentorships, and rivalries,” Lacey writes. “The relationships in an artist’s life . . . create an unseen scaffolding of their life’s work.” So this is the book for a quick accounting of, say, Marilyn Monroe’s relationship with Arthur Miller but also of that time she went for Chinese with Truman Capote, planning to go to the dock afterward and toss fortune cookies to the gulls.”

Sounds good to me!