The COASTER Correspondence

Edwin John Coaster

VANITIES

MORE OF THE VERY EXPENSIVE WORDS OF Edwin John Coaster, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

L)P~VIU t~1IP~P-1~Y Senior Vice President/Executive Editor August 23, 2009 Dear Graydon: Howdy! This November we are publishing Always Cutting My Feet on the Empties, the memoir of Ed Coaster's eldest daughter, Brooke. Bound galley is enclosed. It's pretty explosive stuff. She's unstinting about Ed's boozing, his philandering, his foibles as a father, and her own resultant addictions to NyQuil and public nudity. She also addresses head-on the subject of Ed's same-sex dalliances. And here's the thing: She names names and .. you're one of them. I wanted to give you a heads-up well before the pub date so you'd be prepared for this. If it makes you feel any better, Brooke writes that her father also boasted of "liaisons" with Robert Lowell, Steve McQueen, Vitas Gerulaitis, Sterling Holloway (voice of Winnie the Pooh), and Yuri Gagarin. Oh, and we'd love to talk about V.F~ running an excerpt.

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